I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.
Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.
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.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.
It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
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.
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.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
They alone live, who live for others.
