Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

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

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.