A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

When I give, I give myself.

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 great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.