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.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

You are never too old to become younger!

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

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

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

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

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

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Ideas come from everything

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

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

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.