“Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.”

You cannot change your future, but you can change your habits, and surely your habits will change your future.

No great thing is created suddenly.

All life is yoga.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.