Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

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 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.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

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

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

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

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

The best way out is always through.

Be yourself, let you come through.