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.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

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

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.