No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

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.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Ideas come from everything

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Make today worth remembering.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.