If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo.

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.

One of the great wonders of Christianity is that you were born into your times, to set your times aright.

Let's win this one for the Gipper.

Single men never have any problems. I suppose that the public builds some kind of idea from what they've seen of me on the screen.

Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal.

Our world leaders ... need our help. They need the cavalry, and the cavalry's not going to come from Mars; it's got to come from us.

I don't care how much a man talks, if he only says it in a few words.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

You have to be polite with your friends and your family, but in your art, it's important to not be polite.

You don't really get to know people behind the scenes. One can assume that it's out there, but I have no idea at the end of the day. I hope not.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.