If I am to speak for ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now

If you don't believe in yourself, then who will believe in you? The next man's way of getting there might not necessarily work for me, so I have to create my own ways of getting there

I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of other

Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person

Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all