My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

I want to be financially secure by the time I have kids.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I’m just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Millions of people live their entire lives without finding themselves. But it is something I must do.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts. Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

I’m an emotional person. Sometimes I can’t help it.

By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.

Learn to invest in investments where you can achieve an honest, legal advantage over other investors. When it comes to investing, why play on a level field?

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

People who boast about their I.Q. are losers.

My dad was fiscally conservative, and I was influenced by that. He didn’t believe in spending more than you had because it gets you into trouble.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

When I first starting making money, when I first made my first six-digits, I was – my big thing was I went to put super unleaded in my truck for the first time.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Many gold and silver experts will recommend you buy numismatic coins – rare and old coins. If you are not a rare coin expert, I’d encourage you to stay away from them. New investors often pay too much for rare coins that are not really rare.

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

I don’t consider myself an intellectual. And this is not one of my aims. But I admire intellectual people.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

I’m addicted to placebos.

I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

He is lost who is possessed by carnal desire.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

I really have no interest in myself.

I don’t have anything to hide.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

It’s not to much fun to know yourself too well or think you do – everyone needs a little conceit to carry them through & past the falls.

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

You know, it’s not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world does it to you long enough and effectively enough, you begin to do to yourself.

All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.

We can’t just choose to tell some facts and not others because we don’t want to upset people. We have to tell it like it is.

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Bad debt is debt that makes you poorer. I count the mortgage on my home as bad debt, because I’m the one paying on it. Other forms of bad debt are car payments, credit card balances, or other consumer loans.

There are phases in life which surface at times, and it makes you understand that despite you working hard, everything what you are doing is probably not enough. That’s when you need to look around, and beyond.