The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

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

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Above all things, respect yourself.

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

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

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 may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.