A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor.

Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

We become what we repeatedly do.

One of the few things that can't be recycled is wasted time.

Strong minds talk about ideas; weak minds talk about people.

Life is a mission, not a career. A career is a profession, a mission is a cause. A career asks, What's in it for me? A mission asks, How can I make a difference?

We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.

Depending on what they are, our habits will either make us or break us. We become what we repeatedly do.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

Make as many friends as you can, but don't build your life on them alone. It's an unstable foundation.

Don't wait until people are dead to give them flowers.

Everybody acts like the future is so far away, when really every moment that passes is the future.

In philosophy an individual is becoming himself.

I wish we lived in a society that made it safe and provided the courage for everyone to come out.

Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being.

I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.

Because I'm interested in depiction, representation, therefore you're interested in photography. You don't ignore it.

The power of our Muse lies in her meaninglessness. Even the style can turn one into a slave if one does not run away from it, and then one is doomed to repeat oneself.

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

It's always better to be kind. I'm glad I know why." -Wanda