In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

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.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

You shape your own destiny.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.