Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

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.

Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an agenda had his/her way, the shelves in the school library would be close to empty.

The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

I don't say that I never feel fear before a performance, but I have learned to channel it.

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person.

Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

I just think the American people had better understand what's going on. This is a bunch of scumbags. That's what [Russians] are!

The story is the first thing and the last thing.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.

The best songs for me come from the search for joy. You're in a negative place maybe, but you're still striving to improve yourself and find happiness.

We have to fight the terrorists as if there were no rules and preserve our open society as if there were no terrorists.