Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

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.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

You shape your own destiny.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

The best way out is always through.