Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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.

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.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

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.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

We're lost, but we're making good time

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.