Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

We're lost, but we're making good time

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Know thyself.

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.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.