Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I am the captain of my soul.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

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

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

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

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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.