To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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.
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
