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

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

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.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Know thyself.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

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