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 secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.