Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility.

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 difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

It's very hard to separate what is a conscious decision and what's not.

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush.

Know your opportunity.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

I always thought I had a problem socially, because I was pulled out of school so early. I had a tough time talking to other kids and being comfortable with them.

Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Time is eating away my memory. Time, and this illness, this trespasser in my brain.