We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

They do not realize that a myth is dead if it no longer lives and grows. Our myth has become mute, and gives no answers.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and a stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future was the past was not.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

I am somebody. I am me. I like being me. And I need nobody to make me somebody.

The NFL is a performance-based business, so you should have to perform to earn some of your money. At the same time, I realize that my success isn't just because of what I do out there.

If we know where we are and something about how we got there, we might see where we are trending - and if the outcomes which lie naturally in our course are unacceptable, to make timely change.

Do something that scares you every day. You have nothing to lose but fear itself.

The man realized that what counted was not where a person lived, but how a person lived.

I believe every chess player senses beauty, when he succeeds in creating situations, which contradict the expectations and the rules, and he succeeds in mastering this situation.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.