We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The time is always right to do the right thing

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

You shape your own destiny.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.