Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing you will never get it done.

If you think a thing is impossible, you’ll only make it impossible.

The enemy of development is this pain phobia – the unwillingness to do a tiny bit of suffering.

I’ve come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized

Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!

Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact.

Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

Get maximum effect from minimum effort.

To be what I term a ‘quality’ human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world.

Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself.

Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived.

Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques.

Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped.

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.