“I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.”

“After a lifetime of working, raising families, and contributing to the success of this nation in countless other ways, senior citizens deserve to retire with dignity.”

“There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.”

“Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice.”

“Perseverance - a lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves an inglorious success.”

“As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.”

“Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.”

“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”

“Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.”

“Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.”

“Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.”

“You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.”

“Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.”

“Success needs no explanation. Failure does not have one that matters.”

“Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.”

“For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.”

“People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.”

“Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.”

“To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.”

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

“Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life.”