Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

All thinking men are atheists.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Above all things, respect yourself.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.