Be happy, but never satisfied.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

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