As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.