Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
People die from typewriters falling on their heads.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
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.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?