Everything is a battlefield. If you fight with anger, you are part of the problem. If you fight with joy, you're part of the solution.

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

There's never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.

Your wrinkles either show that you're nasty, cranky, and senile, or that you're always smiling.

One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart

Happiness is not a destination or an experience. It's a decision.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Music rearranges your molecular structure.

My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.

Live up to your convictions. You walk in grace or you walk in fear. You can't have it both ways.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.

You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.

I'd say Carrick has the qualities of a Scholes, Andrea Pirlo and Sergio Busquets.

I would rather be British than just.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

What you are comes to you.

Do not mix temporary difficulties with real problems.