To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
The best way out is always through.
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.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
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.