Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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.

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.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day