Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego – its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

The discontented man finds no easy chair.

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

And it comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much. We’re always thinking about new markets we could enter, but it’s only by saying no that you can concentrate on the things that are really important.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I tell myself every day I love my Jacuzzi, I love my marble floors, I love my high ceilings.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

Love can do much, but duty more.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

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

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Action expresses priorities.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

The bottom line is, when people are crystal clear about the most important priorities of the organization and team they work with and prioritized their work around those top priorities, not only are they many times more productive, they discover they have the time they need to have a whole life.

Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

People don’t want to hear about me having leather walls or gold toilets.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

My work and my family are very important to me.

My music is a luxury.

I like being comfortable at airports, in flip-flops with no jewelry on.

I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

Money ain’t everything.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.