if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

when distress comes your way, pause and ponder

By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me. They meet all kinds of crazy fish.

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.

What is your quest in life?

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

There are planes that are not light. There are planes that are shadowy. But that is not our interest in meditation. We want brightness, ecstasy, brilliance beyond comprehension.

A movement happens when people are inspired by somebody, but they do it themselves. You don't wait for someone else. You do it yourself.

I can't imagine anybody who ends up being an artist who didn't pass through a time of geekiness.

It is a great plague to be too handsome a man. [Lat., Nimia est miseria nimis pulchrum esse hominem.]

God looks at the clean hands, not the full ones.

But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason you were brought into Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you might know me better there.