One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

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.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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.

You are never too old to become younger!

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

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

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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