Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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.
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.
Above all things, respect yourself.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
You are never too old to become younger!
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.
I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.