To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Never, never, never give up.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I created myself. I have taught myself so much.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

The more you know the less you need to say.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

Theology is unnecessary.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

My life is my argument.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don’t know nothing. I mean, that’s my life lesson.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

Those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

I’ll do whatever it takes to win games, whether it’s sitting on a bench waving a towel, handing a cup of water to a teammate, or hitting the game-winning shot.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn’t have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction.

I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

I’m not intimidated by how people perceive me.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.