Failure is... the highway to success.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

My anger thought you too ignoble for my love, and close examination finds you too magnificent, and only equals are joined together smoothly.

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

More is accomplished by spending time in God's presence than by doing anything else.

I'm a goofball and a comedian.

Be in the habit of experimenting with your clothing so that you don't get stuck for life with a self-image developed over the course of high school.

People see me in powerful roles. That's what people want to see. That's what I want to do.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

My teaching was animated by what I was reading and being excited by as a poet.