The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.
We're lost, but we're making good time
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
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.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
