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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars.

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.

Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence.

Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.