If You're going to sweep the floor, sweep it better than anybody in town. And if You're going to play the guitar, really, really, really get in it, and don't be jivin'.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes I wished I could cut away old memories and let the wind take them. If a sharp knife could pare away the weakness of those days, I would slice until nothing but the hard lessons remained.

If there was one weapon he had against these savages, it was not acknowledging their existence.

Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home.

My attraction has never been to computers per se, but to the fact that they offer a highly leveraged way to invent magic.

Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door.

... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position.

If you spend enough time in or around Washington, you'll meet amazing people who work for the government.

For cultural invasion to succeed, it is essential that those invaded become convinced of their intrinsic inferiority.