It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
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.
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.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.
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.
I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.
Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
