You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.