A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

These mental and physical components of self­ belief are closely interlinked. They are used to slowly interweave the per­sonal narratives that very effectively create a powerful sense of identity.

When the first baby laughed for the first time the laugh broke into a million pieces and they all went skipping about. That was the beginning of fairies.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

My mother was a singer, and I never heard her sing a note in my life.

God hath intended our passions to prevail over reason.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

My favorite sci-fi always uses its hook to amplify some bigger theme or idea - some emotional thrust.

Is all the world jails and churches?