Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.

A leader leads by example not by force.

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

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

風　Swift as the wind
林　Quiet as the forest
火　Conquer like the fire
山　Steady as the mountain

To know your Enemy, you must become your Enemy.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it into a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Anything you don't understand, Mr. Rankin, you attribute to God. God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence. You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself; do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him.

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Life well spent is long.

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions.

History is full of people who out of fear, or ignorance, or lust for power have destroyed knowledge of immeasurable value which truly belongs to us all. We must not let it happen again.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.