As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

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.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

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