Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

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

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Indecision has a way of not moving forward. And who says time doesn't stand still?

The deeds of the light are love, faith and purity.

For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort.

If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.

That dichotomy between the public consumption of the work and my intent and practice in making it is an uneasy one for me, on occasion.

I think my favorite thing is the mystery of life - it makes you feel that much better about accomplishing something.

Are we, like, having a conversation?" "Did you just, like, ask me for advice and listen with an open mind? If so, then yes, I would call this a conversation

If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.

Every time I improvise I'm aware that I could be ruining what it is that we're doing and we'll just have to do it again.