“Focus on making yourself better, not thinking you are better.”

“When you react, you let other control you. When you respond, you are in control.”

“There is no such thing as a fair fight.”

“Self-discipline is the cornerstone of any endeavor.”

“You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best YOU that you can be.”

“Act with the heart of the warrior.”

“Conduct yourself in a manner that is worthy of respect and don't worry about what others think.”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”

“There are no facts, only interpretations.”

“My story is of such marvel that if it were written with a needle on the corner of an eye, it would yet serve as a lesson to those who seek wisdom.”

“There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself - in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love - and multiply by 1,198,500,00...”