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.
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.
