However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

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

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

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.

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

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

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

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

They alone live, who live for others.

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.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

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

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

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.