The poorer we are inwardly, the more we try to enrich ourselves outwardly.

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.

Politics is always driven by competing worries.

...our brains are minuscule fragments of the universe, much too small to hold all the facts of the world but not too idle to speculate about them.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

I've been a workaholic since I was 18.

The Stroke Association has produced leaflets that set out clearly the health risks associated with stroke that African-Caribbean people face.

Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!

I do enjoy working with writers.

I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.

When I was a little kid we had a sand box. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child... eventually.