One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

The paradox in Christian truth is invariably due to the fact that it is the truth that exists for God. The standard of measure and the end is superhuman

Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training

I also believe that US backing for Israeli policies of expansion of the Israeli state and oppression of the Palestinian people is the major cause of bitter division and violence in the world.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.

I don't really usually push an agenda, and I don't feel that my main job is to persuade people of something. My main job is to help them think about something.

It has always seemed somewhat paradoxical to me that we must constantly have the Lord command us to do those things which are for our own good.

There is no scientific evidence that doing over 10 percent of births with a cesarean improves the outcome for the woman or improves the outcome for the baby.

Ho said, 'I do not grieve because my feet have been cut off. I grieve because a precious jewel is dubbed a mere stone, and a man of integrity is called a deceiver. This is why I weep.'

His smile was like lightning in the darkness, blinding and beautiful and mysterious, and I wanted him so badly it was physically painful.