Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

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

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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.