We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The time is always right to do the right thing

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

All wealth is the product of labor.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth 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.