Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Be yourself, let you come through.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

You are never too old to become younger!

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

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

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

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives 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.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.