Understand that the essence of martial arts is not the art itself, but what's hidden deep within yourself.

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor own.

A man who has attained mastery of an art reveals it in his every action.

Move quickly. Sound, calm mind. Be light in body. Have a clever mind. Master the basics.

It is not the number of Kata you know, but the SUBSTANCE of the Kata you have acquired.

Do not expect much from humans. Expect much more from God.

...the pleasures of literary fiction are the pleasures of orientation

I don't believe in the Constitution because I'm American, I'm American because I believe in the Constitution.

Leadership is meant merely to be lead-by-example.Anything given extra to support team result is just an icing on the top.

I think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still... I can feel a sunshine stealing into my soul and making it all summer, and every thorn, a rose.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

Discipline, Norah. If you're going to taunt them, remember to stick out your tongue.

Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much less time, and are much less likely to deceive us.

The great pillars of all government and of social life [are] virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor, my friend, and this alone, that renders us invincible.

Practice writing and speaking about what you do.