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 key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

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.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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

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

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

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

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

You shape your own destiny.

United we stand; divided we fall.