Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.

Movement is life. Life is a process. Improve the quality of the process and you improve the quality of life itself.

In order to change our mode of action, we must change the image of ourselves that we carry within us.

Make the impossible possible, the possible easy, the easy elegant.

Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so.

Our breathing reflects every emotional or physical effort and every disturbance.

People confound, misuse, interchange thinking and speaking, not realizing that speaking is for communication and thinking is for action.

Learning to inhibit unwanted contractions of muscles that function without, or in spite of, our will, is the main task in coordinated action.

Movement is life; without movement life is unthinkable.

Standing is harder than moving.

No matter how closely we look, it is difficult to find a mental act that can take place without the support of some physical function.

On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.

You have a right to feel the universe is willing to provide you with blessings, but not to the point that it cannot do without you.

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

To be clear, geoengineering won't solve global warming. It's not a 'techno-fix.' It would be enormously risky and almost certainly lead to troubling unforeseen consequences.

The meek are those who quietly submit themselves to God, to His Word and to His rod, who follow His directions, and comply with His designs, and are gentle toward all men.

WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in the wrestling Hall of Fame. This guy can't even get into his own Hall of Fame.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.