When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.
There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.
All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.
If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
It's always too early to quit.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.
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.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.