Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
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.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
I am the lizard king. I can do anything.
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
I am the captain of my soul.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
