Freedom and independence form my character.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

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

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Above all things, respect yourself.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.