Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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.

Humanism is not a pompous philosophy to be talked and debated about by a handful of intellectuals - it is the purest form of moral compass, which defines the civilized heart of thinking humanity.

As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.

Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting.

Onstage or in films, you do affect peoples' lives, and sometimes that's very gratifying. But still, there's this little voice that says you should be doing something that matters.

Personality, too, is destiny.

In the moment of acting you don't feel like anything, you feel like the person, as much as you can.

Words are my passion / And out of them and me / I would create beauty.

No matter who you are it's the simple things in life that lead you to believe that you can achieve anything.

I love John Waters. There's stuff in it that's beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that.