Getting distracted by trifles is the easiest thing in the world… Focus on your main duty

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. They are dazzled and deluded by appearances. Stick with your purpose. This alone will strengthen your will and give your life coherence.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.

I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.

From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do -- now.

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

If someone speaks badly of you, do not defend yourself against the accusations, but reply; "you obviously don't know about my other vices, otherwise you would have mentioned these as well

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

We're better off. But I don't know if the world's better off. I don't know if the two are the same thing.

Everyone's the anti-Teddy Roosevelt. Speak loudly and carry a brittle twig.

If people want some guidance, I say, just look at what people really do. Don't listen to them that much.

Hollywood movies are designed for 15-year-old youths from North Dakota who, intellectually speaking, are on equal terms with a British zoo animal.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

So all the rest is O.K., but fame is a hollow ground, isn't it? It's an empty kind of thing.

I hope I can help guys come out and say, 'All right, dude, I got a manicure...and I liked it.'

Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.