Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.
Aim for the highest.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Make today worth remembering.
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
