People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

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

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 person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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