It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

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.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

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

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.