When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing 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.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.