I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.
You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.
What I stand for is what I stand on.
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.
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.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
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.
You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.
And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
