As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

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Training and managing your own mind is the most important skill you could ever own, in terms of both happiness and success.

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Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

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There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living. — Nelson Mandela

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Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

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The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. ― Henry David Thoreau

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Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.

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Go, and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

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