The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

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.

The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

That's the crazy thing about lies. You start to fall for them, yourself.

I perceived that I wouldn't have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do- it would unfold before me.

As a matter of fact, you know, Jesus probably would be, except for one or two issues, a liberal Democrat if he were around today.

Busyness is the unrivaled archenemy of spiritual authenticity.

He'll sit there are he'll say "Do this! Do that!" and nothing will happen. Poor Ike - it won't be a bit like the army.

I get a little sick of these New Yorkers who want me to make some psychic thing, like 'The Left-Handed Gun.' They don't know anything about Western history.

I'm doing a film now with a lot of guys as well, so at the end of that I will be growing a beard.

I think politics have gotten vulgar and we comedically portray that.