Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies.

If you wish in this world to advance, Your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet. Or trust me, you haven't a chance.

When my son was born I had this dream that one day he might grow up to be a Nobel Prize winner. But I also had another dream that he might grow up to say, "Do you want fries with that?"

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.