Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

He was everything I never knew I was looking for.

The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean.

The most silent people are generally those who think most highly of themselves.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I dream of a true husband—a good man, not a brute, nor a champion of men on the battlefield; I dream but of a gentle man, one who neither speaks too loud nor ignores evil.

You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.

The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.

while it's true in tennis, love is zero. but zero is also where everything starts. nothing would ever be born if we didn't depart from there. nothing would be ever achieved.

Everything a politician promises at election time has to be paid for either by higher taxation or by borrowing.