life

"The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve."

"I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'"

"The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

"A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful."

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."

"The story of life is quicker than the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye."

"People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but its the way you live your life that matters."

"Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring."

"Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way."

"Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything."

"Life is 10 percent what you make itand 90 percent how you take it."

"Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"I know I love her, because when I see her my heart beats like a drum. If she played guitar and sang, we could start a band."

"The most enjoyable book in the world is the phone book, because think of all the sex that went into creating the content."

"The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation."

"To know a species, look at its fears. To know yourself, look at your fears. Fear in itself is not important, but fear stands there and points you in the direction of things that are important. Don't be afraid of your fears, they're not there to scare you; they're there to let you know that something is worth it."

"If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs."

"If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud."

"But we can't go back. We can only go forward."