The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
Ideas come from everything
For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.
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.
It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.