Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

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

I believe that every person is born with talent.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.