If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Ideas come from everything

The time is always right to do the right thing

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

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.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

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

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The best way out is always through.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.