Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and… the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

Time is more value than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

Observe all men, thyself most.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

I’m a lad of the ’60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

I’m crazy, but I’m not too crazy.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I am not very good with relationships. With anyone. I can’t be locked up with anyone for too long.

Too many people treat parenting like it’s the 20th item on their to-do list.

Even with my divorce and with everything, I don’t need money.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I don’t care about money.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment.

I never make conscious decisions.

I’m inconsistent, even to myself.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Once someone has spent enough time cultivating bad habits and biding their time, they are much diminished. Much of what they could have been has dissipated.

To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

The narrow bandwidth of TV has made us think that we are stupider than we are.

Self-actualized people are independent of the good opinion of others.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

We must use time creatively.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

First and foremost, we need to be the adults we want our children to be. We should watch our own gossiping and anger. We should model the kindness we want to see.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Better never than late.