Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

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

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

When I give, I give myself.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

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

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.