It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man.

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.

Someday all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens, a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

Fate is something you believe in when things are not going well. When they are, you forget it.

My first few plays took place in the South and even The Lucky Spot was in the thirties but in Louisiana.

The Will I fell in love with, she almost said."And be Will," she finished instead. "Or I shall hit you with my umbrella.

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

Everyone wants a prodigy to fail; it makes our mediocrity more bearable.

This [defeat] has taught me a lesson, but I'm not sure what it is.

English is the key to full participation in the opportunities of American life.

Once scientists and scholars invest parts of their career in support of a paradigm, it becomes a sort of a self-betrayal to abandon it.