Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

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.

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

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.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

United we stand; divided we fall.

Know thyself.

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.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.