Those who have a warped mind, a mind of discord, have been defeated from the beginning.

Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

True victory does not come from defeating an enemy, true victory comes from giving love and changing an enemies heart.

A warrior's mission is to foster the success of others.

There are no contests in the Art of Peace. A true warrior is invincible because he or she contests with nothing. Defeat means to defeat the mind of contention that we harbor within.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

Now and again, it is necessary to seclude yourself among deep mountain and hidden valleys to restore your link to the source of life.

Everyone has a spirit that can be refined, a body that can be trained in some manner, a suitable path to follow. You are here to realize your inner divinity and manifest your innate enlightenment.

Your voice is a very powerful weapon. When you are in tune with the cosmic breath of heaven and earth, your voice produces true sounds. Unify body, mind, and speech, and real techniques will emerge.

The heart of a human being is no different from the soul of heaven and earth. In your practice always keep in your thoughts the interaction of heaven and earth, water and fire, yin and yang.

The only way I could conceive of waving a white flag, would be during the process of folding it, so to be used as a napkin later, at our victory dinner.

Regret is like a mental parasite that alters your behavior.

Rick Perry's an idiot, and I don't think anyone would disagree with that.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

It's not sincereity, it is truth which frees us, because it transforms us. It tears us away from our inmost slavery.

Hovering near panic, trying to focus but finding it hard to open my eyes. My heart was pounding. I couldn’t get enough air, and I couldn’t find the desire to push her away

God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance.

Sometimes, she thought, life makes you grow up early. And some people never grow up at all.

I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

It’s unbelievable how you can affect someone else so deeply and never know.