You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter.

The three most difficult things in life are: 1. To keep a secret. 2. To forget an injury. 3. To make good use of leisure.

All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being.

Truth cannot be structured or confined.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended.

Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.