Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!

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.

A sudden shock rattles your soul. The ground shifts. In minutes it is over, but it takes a long time to find your center of balance again

Kindness carries no price tag neither does it require making a purchase. A random act of kindness can change someone's life...choose to be kind always.

I wish to be a product not a consumer.

Faith is a passionate intuition.

Necessity knows no law.

Art is for the artist is only suffering through which he releases himself for further suffering.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

There is such an animal as a nonstylist, only they're not writers - they're typists.

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people's journeys.

Sitting at the table during Color Purple and looking up and suddenly realizing I was acting in front of Steven Spielberg, was pretty cool. It was pretty good.