The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
You shape your own destiny.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
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.
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.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
If you can't you must, and if you must you can.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
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.