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

The man with no imagination has no wings.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Ideas come from everything

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

I am the captain of my soul.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.