Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.