I like working. That’s when I’m feeling my best. And the people around me know that. My wife knows that.

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‚Ego‘.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

Before all else, be armed.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

I have only one counsel for you – be master.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Motivation is simple. You eliminate those who are not motivated.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I have, before now, waited for a pen to perform a macro.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

No one but a fool is always right.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Speak low, if you speak love.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

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

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

Man’s enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.

They do not love that do not show their love.