They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

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.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

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.

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

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Aim for the highest.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

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.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.