My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power.

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.

No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

Sadly we live in a society where it is more popular to be popular than to be honorable, audacious and worthy.

Mom worked as a school librarian, and she felt summers were for education.

It is the natural instinct of a child to work from within outwards; "First I think, and then I draw my think." What wasted efforts we make to teach the child to stop thinking, and only to observe!

Of two evils, choose neither.

If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it.

The question is no longer whether the United States should contribute to assuring Israel's survival and prosperity; that goes without saying.

Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.

This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.

I don't want to talk about nonsense because it doesn't help me.