Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.

Each relationship nurtures a strength or weakness within you.

Failure can teach you something, and as long as you're moving very, very quickly, you're going to start piling up the wins. Speed gives you the luxury to be able to fail.

It's definitely a problem inside the technology industry - not just gender discrimination. Diversity is an issue within technology, within Expedia.

One of the early lessons that I learned in leadership is that it's the leader's job to always go against the flow.

There's simply no better company out there doing mobile travel apps with the same level of design sensibility and utility as Mobiata.

While Expedia is outbound-focused, Wotif is much more about domestic travel.

Traveloka is the clear online travel leader in Indonesia and is expanding aggressively throughout Southeast Asia.

Anytime you introduce volatility, it is not good for business and not good for travel.

We found that travel, especially online travel, has been quite resistant to economic cycles.

Put the right people in the right places, and then you trust them to do the right stuff.

I think I wanted to be a doctor. In Iran, the engineering and medical professions are worshipped. My father very much wanted me to be a doctor. I was certainly eager to please as a young man - as a kid, I should say.

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll.

I love language, and I love the failure of language.

Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success, and in some ways it's better to have failure at the beginning of your career, or your life.

It is wise to keep in mind that neither success nor failure is ever final.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.

In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.

The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Freedom is the only law which genius knows.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.