Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul.

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.

Because no one is walking in your shoes, only you feel the sores on your feet.

We cannot forever hide the truth about ourselves, from ourselves.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

At this point the theater America is in such a precarious place.

It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes.

I'm at my 3 year-olds year-end concert. It's full of very off-key, mostly unfocused children, but this father is still beaming. Must be how God feels on Sunday.

Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion.

A still tongue makes a happy life.

I'd love to see T'he Avengers' with Robert Downey, Jr. playing Loki and Clark Gregg playing 'Thor' and I play Captain America.

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.