Willing is not enough, one must apply.

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 complete life may be one ending in so full identification with the non-self that there is no self to die.

But you're like me, ” he says. “An outsider. Different. A freak. We're both weird, which is why we get along.

Think bigger It makes a profit

Logic only gives man what he needs, ” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

I knew how severe I had been and how bad things had been. The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one who poverty bothers.

The two kinds of people on earth that I mean Are the people who lift and the people who lean.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

The more we refuse to buy into our inner critics - and our external ones too - the easier it will get to have confidence in our choices, and to feel comfortable with who we are.

Every morning like a scholar at his first class I prepare a blank mind for the day to write upon.

The authority of example and considerations of character, unlike pudding, are not whipped up in an instant.