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.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I confess that in 1901 I said to my brother Orville that man would not fly for fifty years.

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

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

How long should you try? Until.

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

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

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

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.