What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

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.

There is always room at the top.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

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

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

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

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.