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

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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

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

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

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.