To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Aim for the highest.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?