Pain is weakness leaving your body.

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.

Happiness is your nature. It is not wrong to desire it. What is wrong is seeking it outside when it is inside.

I was lonely, and a lonely heart has hungers that can overpower both common sense and dignity.

I hated all this: the mystery of myself.

You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

Music has always been a part of my spiritual seeking, from the moment that Handel's 'Messiah' gave me the experience when I was so young, and music has meant so much to me since then.

I wasn't afraid of him anymore, because I could smell his fear. You never had to be afraid of anything that was afraid of you.

Even that crazy lunatic, my aunt the Empress, wa absolutely sweet and charming.

I've trained all my life not to be distracted by distractions.

As a leader you have to recognize that it all starts with you: your attitude, your commitment, your caring, your passion.

Is birth always a fall?