Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith..

Zen is all-inclusive. It never denies, it never says no to anything; it accepts everything and transforms it into a higher reality..

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that..

To tend, unfailingly, unflinchingly, towards a goal, is the secret of success..

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent..

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is..

What any person in the world can learn, almost all persons can learn if provided with appropriate prior and current conditions of learning..

What you can imagine depends on what you know..

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office..

Blues is to jazz what yeast is to bread--without it, it's flat..

Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping..

Climate change should be seen as the greatest challenge to face man and treated as a much bigger priority in the United Kingdom..

My father said, 'You must never try to make all the money that's in a deal. Let the other fellow make some money too, because if you have a reputatio….

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically..

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity..

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example..

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is,….

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it..

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth..

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams..

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril..