Arthur Schopenhauer

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

There is always, always, always something to be thankful for.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

All life is experience, and one level is exchanged for another only when its lesson is learned.

The best way is always the simplest. The attics of the world are cluttered up with complicated failures.

Zen teaches that if we can open up to the inevitability of our demise, we can begin to transform and lighten up about it.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

There have been times when I’ve been around people I wouldn’t care to be around, and if I could get away I would. We have a word in Mississippi – we just don’t seem to set horses. In other words, this person is always saying something that gets your goat, y’understand? But when people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there I had nobody I disliked other than the people that’d mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

If you wish to clear away the clouds of thought, simply keep your mind in the present.

Just because you like my stuff doesn’t mean I owe you anything.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line.

Join the dance.