Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.