You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them.

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.

It's never too late to create!

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

The passion of vanity has its own depths in the spirit, and is powerfully militant.

Property isn't theft: it's nothing.

You will have written exceptionally well if, by skilful arrangement of your words, you have made an ordinary one seem original.

What I like about film is it explores imperfections.

Even a poor plan is better than no plan at all.

I don't settle. That's how I am.

No blessing lasts forever.

Many dogs will give a greeting grin much like a human smile.