Quotes on Ifs

I've learned over the years that if you start thinking about the race, it stresses you out a little bit. I just try to relax and think about video games, what I'm gonna do after the race, what I'm gonna do just to chill. Stuff like that to relax a little before the race.

If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each other's dreams, we can play together all night.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet.

I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn't exist except as a part of everything.

Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

It is hardly possible to build anything if frustration, bitterness and a mood of helplessness prevail.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.

If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.