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.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

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

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

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

You shape your own destiny.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.