The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.

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.

There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.

There is cost for everything.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

We're so structured and micromanaged, this isn't a world anymore, it's a damn cruise ship.

Reporter lady: What's that color? John: Hm. I'd call this a color!

A neighborhood friend showed me how it was possible to go to a camera shop and pick up chemicals for pennies... literally... and develop your own film and make prints.

See it, believe it, achieve it.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

There is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.