As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

If all you’re doing is grinding for the man, it’s going to burden you. Once you say, ‚Hey, I’m grinding for the man, but I’m putting money away, and this is part of my exit strategy,‘ you’re working for you.

Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don’t believe too much into inspiration, only I’m waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It’s a little too easy to say that.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I’ve actually not read any books on time management.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

They know enough who know how to learn.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

No man goes before his time – unless the boss leaves early.

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

It takes up enough of my time and interest just working on comedy. I just enjoy it and love doing it.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Computers make me totally blank out.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us.

I give opinions, not advice.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

If you keep proving stuff that others have done, getting confidence, increasing the complexities of your solutions – for the fun of it – then one day you’ll turn around and discover that nobody actually did that one!

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.