Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

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

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

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

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.