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.

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

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

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.

The mystical poetry of William Blake's artwork also forms the basis for the album cover.

Curiosity might be pictured as being made up of chains of small questions extending outwards, sometimes over huge distances, from a central hub composed of a few blunt, large questions.

What I do with my kids is - and I think they probably do ignore us - is No Alcohol. If they're drunk they will be grounded for time immemorial.

I cannot even remember a time before being conscious of James Bond.

Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

Now, no matter what the mullah teaches, there is only one sin, only one. And that is theft. Every other sin is a variation of theft.

The whole body of the arts and sciences composes one vast machinery for the irritation and development of the human intellect.

Building a better life for every child is a lot harder than becoming a world champion. Both goals take dedication and commitment.