Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.