Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

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.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

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

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

Be yourself, let you come through.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.