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

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

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

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.