I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

When I give, I give myself.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.