Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

You are never too old to become younger!

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

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

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.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.