The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.

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.

I can’t pinpoint the moment this all happened. The moment we broke. But we did.And it feels like acid in my throat.

Below Every Tangled Hierarchy Lies An Inviolate Level

I built a studio in my house so I can be with my kids. I go out to my approval meetings [for my collection] while they nap, but at least I can sing [at home] while they sleep at night.

You really, really have to care about animals to want to kill one. You have to learn all this stuff about them and start thinking like them.

That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first.

You know you can set fire to the capacity to say.

You know when people start talking about freedom they have to be old. They gotta be old-fashioned and really out of touch. Freedom? Well, what's that? Who needs any of that?

If governments were kind, they'd realize that conficts are resolved and wars prevented not by armies but by ordinary people.

Follow your heart, whatever you do. You are placing your fate and our fate in the hands of men and women who are going to govern at national and provincial level.

You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.