If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

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.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Children know something that most people have forgotten.

The wise will hide your follies and help you learn, but the wicked ones will gossip about it with scoundrels.

The resources of Africa are greater than the amount of aid it can ever get. Hence, Africa needs to manage its resources prudently and efficiently to minimise its dependence on aid.

we do not die of anguish, we live on. We continue to suffer. We drink the cup drop by drop.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

The French, for example, are a contemptible nation.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

I do believe that those who compare the religious Right to the Nazis have fallen victim to polemical heat prostration.

Every woman knows all about everything.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.