If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

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.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.