Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

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 always seems impossible until it's done.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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