When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

You’ve got to be sure of yourself beforeYou can ever win a prize.

If you are ready for the secret, you already possess one half of it, therefore, you will readily recognize the other half the moment it reaches your mind.

I guess the sacrifice of my dignity is the only thing that will save us now. The things I endure for love. The Fates laugh at my torment.

The highest religion of human is the identity for which he is living rest is either one of the path or unnecessary fight.

You're looking for a reason, " she said. "And that doesn't help. It doesn't change the present.

Perfection does not exist. To understand this is the triumph of human intelligence to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

All of us are beautiful people, but we walk around just being people. I wanted real human beings.

When stuff gets hard, and you're feeling real down about everything or in a cark space, a song can bring you out of it.

There are moments when rather than reforming the human race I'd like to abandon it altogether and go become, say, one of Dr. O'Reilly's macaques, which have to have more sense.

Music is never stationary; successive forms and styles are only like so many resting-places - like tents pitched and taken down again on the road to the Ideal.

As you keep getting more popular, people are continually wanting more from you and it seems to me that all they want in the end is your death.

What all of us artists are doing is using our pain as material to create our work.