Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond 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.

Know thyself.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

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.