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

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.

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

It is always considered a piece of impertinence in England if a man of less than two or three thousand a year has any opinions at all upon important subjects.

Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")

It was only in the early 1990s - during my student years as an aspiring scientist at Delhi University - that I discovered the world of cinema.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

The Earth is not 6,000 or 10,000 years old. It's not. And if that conflicts with your beliefs, I strongly feel you should question your beliefs.

Just so you know, I'm a really boring interview. I hate doing them.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

Beauty is . . . a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Anyone who knows God cannot describe Him. Anyone who can describe God does not know Him.

The movement is contagious, and the people in it are the ones who pass on the spirit.