Of course the sad truth is that if we are not present to the moment, our true love could come and go and we wouldn't even notice.

The moment we believe that success is determined by an ingrained level of ability as opposed to resilience and hard work, we will be brittle in the face of adversity.

Our minds are all different and I believe cultivating a keen introspective sensitivity is absolutely essential in discovering our potential.

Not only do we have to be good at waiting, we have to love it. Because waiting is not waiting, it is life.

It is rarely a mysterious technique that drives us to the top, but rather a profound mastery of what may well be a basic skill set.

Just about every error has a technical and psychological component: get good at discovering those connections

We learn by pushing ourselves and finding what really lies at the outer reaches of our abilities.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I believe an appreciation for simplicity, the everyday - the ability to dive deeply into the banal and discover life's hidden richness - is where success, let alone happiness, emerges.

In America, people focus on the end result; they focus on the star.

In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.

You cannot sacrifice the world for your children.

2004 has to be my year. No more excuses.

The harmony of the world is made manifest in Form and Number, and the heart and soul and all the poetry of Natural Philosophy are embodied in the concept of mathematical beauty.

About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change, a symbol of hope to all the world.

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

Mary's light is like that of the moon, totally reflected from the sun, the Son of God.

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential.

The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous.