Google is very much a not-invented-here, build-it-ourselves culture.
Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.
Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.
When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, this is happiness, this is success.
Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man's being.
The best books are those which lift us to a higher plane where we breathe a purer atmosphere.
If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.
PREFERENCE, n. A sentiment, or frame of mind, induced by the erroneous belief that one thing is better than another.
My fans are the best. I mean if there was a war, I think they'd definitely win just because they'd kill them with kindness.
Everything is dangerous to him that is afraid of it.
Archery, fencing, spear fighting, all of the martial arts, tea ceremony, flower arranging. . . in all of these, correct breathing, correct balance, and correct stillness help to remake the individual. The basic aim is always the same: by tirelessly practicing a given skill, the student finally sheds the ego with its fears, worldly ambitions, and reliance on objective scrutiny - sheds it so completely that he becomes the instrument of a deeper power, from which mastery falls instinctively, without further effort on his part, like a ripe fruit.