When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

There is always room at the top.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.