If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

If you want to make real money, do something that scares the crap out of 99% of the population, and only one person in a couple of hundred is physically capable of.

No two situations are identical, but with years of experience you can usually find a comparison to something you did before, which shortens the process of deciding how to approach a job.

Education is not only filling the mind with knowledge, but it is igniting the candle that enlightens the mind.

Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.

Any device in science is a window on to nature, and each new window contributes to the breadth of our view.

Speechless, castaway, and wry, a spellbound oddity am I. My feet are planted in the clay, my gaze is locked upon the sky.

(about Dr. Po) Just another quack spouting psychobabble.

My heart contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.

As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future.

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.