There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

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

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

You got to get it while you can.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

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

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.