People are flowers. Music is water. Musicians are the hose.

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.

My heart is warm with the friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

The wave of memory had submerged me for a whole minute, while I'd just sat staring and let it all come flooding back.

Typography is what communication looks like.There is beauty in the language and beauty in the way it is presented.

Valuable lessons were code words for pain that no one apologized for.

We were most amused by destroying what we'd taken.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

The hand that punched is the hands that gives compassion

Wherever there is sincerity & talent, people do recognize them. It may take some time but we should have some patience and hold on to our passion.

We stayed on at the Institute [Chicago called the School of Design] because that was - I don't know, you start at one place and you stay there, I guess. Inertia takes over.