The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Be happy, but never satisfied.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

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.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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.

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

I believe that every person is born with talent.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

Ideas come from everything