The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

You are never too old to become younger!

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

United we stand; divided we fall.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.