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

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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 you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

I am the captain of my soul.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

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

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.