After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
Every intention is a trigger for transformation.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.
The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
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.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.