Nations are born in the hearts of poets, they prosper and die in the hands of politicians.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

People who have no hold over their process of thinking are likely to be ruined by liberty of thought. If thought is immature, liberty of thought becomes a method of converting men into animals.

From your past emerges the present, and from the present is born your future.

If one cannot live the life of the brave, then it is better to die like the brave.

Life is a struggle and not a matter of privilege. It is nothing but one's knowledge of the temporal and the spiritual world.

I tell you the sign of a believer; When Death comes, there is a smile on his lips

Democracy is a system where people are counted not weighed.

If faith is lost, there is no security and there is no life for him who does not adhere to religion.

When the thinking of a people becomes corrupt, the pure silver becomes impure in its hands.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.

I think when you are the parents of a gifted athlete, the best thing in the world you can do is to encourage them, in my opinion. My dad didn't push me and I didn't push my children in athletics.

I realize I'm not a machine. I'm going to make mistakes.

I'm in my dream world.

Well, this would be nice if it worked out, but I'm not selling the farm.

Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.

That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.

Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.