Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Be yourself, let you come through.