In bad times, the rich usually get richer.

The key to success is to raise your own energy; when you do, people will naturally be attracted to you. And when they show up, bill ‘em!

There is nothing more marvelous than doing something you love to do and getting paid for it. It ceases to become work, money, and effort; and it becomes fun, your expression of the joy of life.

There is no amount of money in the world that will make you comfortable if you are not comfortable with yourself.

Life was never meant to be a struggle, just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day.

One thing is fact. The events of your life are created by you, and those events come to you through your feelings.

Balance and good fortune can only come to a person who is balanced and feels fortunate.

Never be afraid to let people go if they're not right; often that's the only way you can make room for the right person.

Seriousness is a disease of the ego

If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

In a time of crisis we all have the potential to morph up to a new level and do things we never thought possible.

A prophet is not someone with special visions, just someone blind to most of what others see

Sometimes we believe it is truth, not because it is truth but because it has been made truth by law or tradition. Some of those truths are nothing but dogmatized myths

We don't get to choose if we get hurt in this world, old man, but we do have a say in who hurts us. I know I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.I do, Augustus. I do.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

It's so much easier to have no expectations than to have big ones.

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.

They always say that jazz doesn't sell, but it's a lie, because it does sell, and it sells consistently year in and year out.

Acting isn't a sure thing. We're not set to have jobs for the rest of lives, and fame is really fickle.

I would rather die a dreamer than live as a cynic.