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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

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.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

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

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Ideas come from everything

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.