Polish your wisdom: learn public justice, distinguish between good and evil, study the ways of different arts one by one.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is, and you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Anger. Control your anger. If you hold anger toward others, they have control over you.Your opponent can dominate and defeat you if you allow him to get you irritated.

The purpose of today's training is to defeat yesterday's understanding.

To win any battle, you must fight as if you are already dead

Determine that today you will overcome your self of the day before, tomorrow you will win over those of lesser skill, and later you will win over those of greater skill.

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain

No Fear, No Hesitation, No Surprise, No Doubt

Fixation is the way to death. Fluidity is the way to life.

The path that leads to truth is littered with the bodies of the ignorant.

Sometimes things that appear completely irreconcilable and mutually exclusive serve a shared purpose that could not be achieved except through their contradiction.

I feel great. George W.Bush is leaving. We're leaving. It's all perfect timing.

All knowledge, is ultimately, self knowledge.

I'm a friend of the CEO of Twitter and he showed me how to be on it, but it causes such an uproar if what you post is perceived in a negative light.

I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.

The early '90s were an especially marvelous period for fashion, because it was the peak of glamour and there were no limits as to what you could do.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.

the hymns were born in the fifteenth or sixteenth century or earlier, and listening to them was like licking an icicle: the same chill, the same purity.

Success isn't about the end result; it's about what you learn along the way.