They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Treat your family like guests and your guests like family.

Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

If you enslave me with fake money, and I realize enslavement is fake. Its in your best interest to set me free!

Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself.

That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

The whole of my life, what they wanted was honesty. They were not concerned with cultured football, but with triers who gave one hundred percent.

India is growing at 8 percent. China is growing at 7 percent. And that for them is a catastrophically low number.

We can all be grateful that there is a place like (University of) North Texas! North Texas has been unique among schools in the country that offer jazz studies . . . quality!

If you work hard the fight's easy. If you don't work hard then the fight's hard.