Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

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

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

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 will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

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.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

All wealth is the product of labor.