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.

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

Often, little situations trigger enormous reactions. Be there, present for it. Your partner will find it easier to see it in you, and you will find it easier to see it in them.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

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

Whenever I counsel someone who feels called to be an evangelist, I always urge them to guard their time and not feel like they have to do everything.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Such as we are made of, such we be.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

You need to understand what works best for your own body.

If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.

There are two kinds of people in this world. ‚I‘ people and ‚we‘ people. I’ve always tried to be a ‚we‘ person.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

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

When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence.

In the child, consciousness rises out of the depths of unconscious psychic life, at first like separate islands, which gradually unite to form a ‚continent,‘ a continuous landmass of consciousness. Progressive mental development means, in effect, extension of consciousness.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

In one day, I have times where I’m feeling great, I feel like I love my life, and then 2:30 rolls around and I’m the angriest man alive. My wife sees it.

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.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

I’m concerned that my technical skills have advanced to the point where I can get closer to what I’m aiming for, which is not such a good thing.

O wretched man, wretched not just because of what you are, but also because you do not know how wretched you are!

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

No one is laughable who laughs at himself.

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.

People should not make me out to be like Jesus; I don’t walk on water.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

What a wee little part of a person’s life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.

My work is the only ground I’ve ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I’m working on the foundation.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn’t believe that we were mortal.