Speak only if it improves upon the silence.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.

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

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting, If I tell you I'm no good, You know I'm lying.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

I'm not a master, I'm a student-master, meaning that I have the knowledge of a master and the expertise of a master, but I'm still learning, So I'm a student-master. I don't believe in the word master, I consider the master as such when they close the casket.