You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Ideas come from everything

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.