Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
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.
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.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
