If we do not find happiness in the present moment, in what shall we find it?

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.

One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title page, another works away at the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.

Ridicule has always been the enemy of enthusiasm, and the only worthy opponent to ridicule is success.

Ceremonies are different in every country, but true politeness is everywhere the same.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Do not postpone your happiness to "achievement" of goals. It is not worth postponing your happiness, even for a moment...Learn to "be happy" first, and then go about achieving your goals...

Blood doesn't make a family.

I'm proud to be an American, I'll tell you. What a program and what a place and what an experience.

Don't mistake activity for achievement - practice the right way. - John Wooden I only play well when I'm prepared. If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Faith is not so much a binary pole as a quantum state, which tends to indeterminacy when closely examined.

Most of my videos consist of fragments, one or two minutes long. They are haikus or sketches. I have thousands.

Tao in the world is like a river flowing home to the sea.

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Our Soul is a spark of the Divine. It is pure and perfect. Evil deeds merely obstruct our vision of the true nature of our Soul. Through good deeds we can become conscious of this perfection again.

A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.