"We can not guarantee success, we can..." - Quote by George Washington

“I cannot tell a lie. I cut down the cherry tree.”

“If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.”

“A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.”

“Success is a miserable teacher. It tempts intelligent people to believe they cannot lose. And it is an unreliable guide to the future.”

“Initiative is as essential to success as a hub is essential to a wagon wheel.”

“The secret of success lies never in the amount of money, but in the relation of income to outgo.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”

“There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.”

“Peace can endure only so long as humanity really insists upon it, and is willing to work for it and sacrifice for it.”