We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Make today worth remembering.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Everything you can imagine is real.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

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

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.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

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.