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.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

It's always too early to quit.

Know thyself.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Everything you can imagine is real.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Above all things, respect yourself.

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.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

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.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.