Preparation for tomorrow is hard work today.

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.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

The soul evolves as a person addresses the chaos, vagaries, and perplexities of enduring an earthly life. We each ultimately become our own version of an ideal self by stage-managing who we become.

Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.

Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought.

For someone to ask 'Who did you play for' and to be able to answer a single name 'Liverpool' that would be brilliant...I don't think I'd ever leave

A good principle not rightly understood may prove as hurtful as a bad.

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!

I don't like what's going on with the executive compensation.

Frankly, I'm fed up with politicians in Washington lecturing the rest of us about family values. Our families have values. But our government doesn't.