Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

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.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

You shape your own destiny.

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.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

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