A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard.

The essential quality of living life lies simply in the living.

I believe a couple should develop a kind of friendship. Linda and I have this kind of friendship. We understand each other, like a pair of good friends.

Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man.

One should get rid of this obtruding self – or ego-consciousness – and apply himself to the work to be done as if nothing particular were taking place at the moment.

The point to be made about ego is that man should use his ego and not be used by ego or blinded by it.

The happiness that is derived from ordinary life last longer; like coal, it burns gradually and slowly. The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire – soon it will go out.