What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Be yourself, let you come through.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
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.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
They alone live, who live for others.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.