Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

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

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

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

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.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.