A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

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

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

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.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

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

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

All thinking men are atheists.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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.