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.

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

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Know thyself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.