Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship

Ron gave a tiny jerk of the head that Harry understood to mean, Well - if you must.

Fear is faithlessness.

When it's your will versus another person's will, the worst thing you can do is smile in their face when you're competing. That's what I tell our guys. Go have fun.

And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hardly less, if it is less, than that exerted by the way in which it is earned.

Never let another man put fear in your heart.

We teach offense 5-0/5-5 (whole method) and defense by part (1-1/3-3).

Last memory of my mother is her being dragged away

I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.