"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."

"The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come."

"Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree what they are made of, where they come from, or how often the should appear."

"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

"The excellent becomes the permanent."

"You have to be deviant if you're going to do anything new."

"To realize one鈥檚 Personal Legend is a person鈥檚 only real obligation."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?"

"It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge"

"Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom."

"Power dements even more than it corrupts, lowering the guard of foresight and raising the haste of action."