Research your own experience; absorb what is useful, reject what is useless and add what is essentially your own.

Not “what” to think but “how” to think.

“A man is literally what he thinks”. This might be a shocking statement, but everything is a state of mind.

Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain.

If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

“Years may wrinkle your skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles your soul.” 

“It is not about reading the Word. It is about obeying the Word.” 

“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

People who don't gamble aren't worth talking to.

Even a burglar hesitates to go back for more.

I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments.

Anyone who has seen the auto factories in Detroit and the oil fields in Texas knows that Japan lacks the national power for a naval race with America.

Never tell anyone outside my staff that the Submarine Force and the First Air Fleet were responsible for the failure at Midway. The failure at Midway was mine.

“If nothing hurts, that means I woke up dead,” 

“...a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.” 

“Perhaps we are in this world to search for love, find it and lose it, again and again. With each love, we are born anew, and with each love that ends we collect a new wound. I am covered with proud scars.” 

“The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.” 

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

“I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.” 

“People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own them. Sometimes the boy went two or three days without speaking a word, surly, and not eating, and when asked what was the matter, the answer was always the same: "There are content days and there are sad days. Each person is a master of his silence.” 

“Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.” 

“Writing is like riding a bicycle: you don’t forget how, even if you go for years without doing it.”