When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

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

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.