Remember, if you don't have a goal you're not playing football, you're just kicking a ball around the park.

Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.

The person that angers you most, teaches you best

Stop trying to squeeze professional results out of recreational hours.

I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.

I train for the first shot – it’s all I need.

Reality is based on perception

Blocking and countering like they do in the films doesn't work, so don't bother trying.

Whatever inspires you fires you.

We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit.

I prefer to talk about the gift of literature rather than its role or task.

Every time I hear the word conservative it makes me sick to my stomach.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Cultivation of meditative stability alone, will not destroy the discrimination of inherent existence. Afflictive emotions can return, making all sorts of disturbances

So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied.

The individual's whole experience is built upon the plan of his language.

The world ends when I die. And as far as I'm concerned, the rest of the universe might as well call it a day too.

The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.