Do not place hope in finding a secret technique. Polish the mind through ceaseless training; that is the key to effective techniques.

A chance to try your technique is in one instant never to be regained, so try it without hesitation.

There are no shortcuts because there is no end

Cause your opponent to repent, then let him fall

The mind, if slackened even a little, will cause defeat, the same as fearing the opponent will make you unable to use full strength.

...it always felt good to have that moment of resolve, like saying, "I'm gonna learn French!" It doesn't matter if you do it or not, deciding is the high, right?

In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when goalkeepers make them, it is costly. That's the nature of being a goalkeeper.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

Information of fundamental importance to the general problem of atomic structure has resulted from systematic studies of the cosmic radiation carried out by the Wilson cloud-chamber method.

We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live apart from others before we began to doubt our existence?

And you… do you know what you are?” “Stupid?” “Beautiful,” he says, his face turning red.

I love lying in darkness.

One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.