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

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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.

All wealth is the product of labor.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

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

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

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

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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.