I've had three wives and three guitars. I still play the guitars.

The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.

Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

Lean your body forward slightly to support the guitar against your chest, for the poetry of the music should resound in your heart.

Electric guitars are an abomination, whoever heard of an electric violin? An electric cello? Or for that matter an electric singer?

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Record the album after the tour.

My prayer to the Lord every day, is this-I have been a great sinner. I do not deserve Heaven. Let me stay here.

I belong to the scarce minority of artists who work in good faith, around whom the phenomenal world vanishes, as it happens to the mystics when they give themselves to prayer.

It is always about discovering what, hidden, does not lie on the paper.

Is liberty your compass needle? Do you live by it? Do you seek it out equally for yourself as for others? Is it your creed? Do you observe its tenets and principles? Are you truly free?

Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.

I almost feel like it's an obligation to not further the status quo if you become somebody with influence and exposure.

Let's go to the food court and try some food.

I feel 100% sure that I have the career that I have today because of independent filmmaking.

Focus on the princess, not on the problem. You can't marry the princess without killing the dragon. So when you see the dragon, just remember: There's a princess on the other side.

The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.

Very early you come to the realization that nothing will ever take you away from yourself.

Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

The great Cham of literature. (Samuel Johnson)