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.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Aim for the highest.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

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

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

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.