If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do 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.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

How long should you try? Until.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.