A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

They alone live, who live for others.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

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

United we stand; divided we fall.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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.