I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Everything you can imagine is real.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

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

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

How long should you try? Until.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

I am the captain of my soul.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

You shape your own destiny.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.