With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

You shape your own destiny.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

All wealth is the product of labor.

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.