What stands in the way of effortless effort is caring, or a conscious attempt to do well.

Those who are patient in the trivial things in life and control themselves will one day have the same mastery in great and important things.

To generate great power you must first totally relax and gather your strength, and then concentrate your mind and all your strength on hitting your target.

When one eye is fixed upon your destination, there is only one eye left with which to find the Way.

Only through practice and more practice, until you can do something without conscious effort.

Only by constantly exposing myself to someone better than I have I been able to improve.

Only after several years of training did I come to realize that the deepest purpose of the martial arts is to serve as a vehicle for personal spiritual development.

One of the first lessons one learns is that the mind is a powerful factor in everything you do, including those exercises that seem to require a maximum of physical strength.

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

Anger doesn't demand action. When you act in anger, you lose self-control.

With an open mind, you are the imagination of universal consciousness and the creation of the subconscious mind that wanders throughout the universe.

No one can pretend that because a people may be oppressed, every individual member is virtuous and worthy.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

Every season is filled with lessons.

Whatever you think people are withholding from you-praise, appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on-give it to them.

Kindness to children, love for children, goodness to children-- these are the only investments that never fail.

I think I'm like The Beatles - I think each one I've done is better than the last one. And hopefully I'll never make a Let It Be.

It’s not a guy and a girl, or a girl and a girl or a guy and a guy - it’s a relationship.

I want a church I can stay in for years. I don't want surprises, scandals, or secrets from my church leaders.

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.