Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

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

They alone live, who live for others.

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

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

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

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

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

It always seems impossible until it's done.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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.