An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

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.

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

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

Don’t feel shy—kiss. Kiss just to feel the joy of life and to get lost in the beauty of love.

The joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Even choosing to do nothing is still making a choice.

The Marine Corps has just been called by the New York Times, 'The elite of this country.' I think it is the elite of the world.

There is a difference between being bold and being rash.

A day hemmed in prayer is less likely to unravel.

Don't aim for perfect. Aim for complete. Perfection is an unattainable illusion.

It seems that bad advice that's fun will always be better known than than good advice that's dull-no matter how useless that fun advice is.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

To love someone means that you sometimes are fulfilled the most by putting thier deepest desires above your own.