I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

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 only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

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

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Make today worth remembering.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life