If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

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

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

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.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.