Life is too short to be small.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

If you don't have time, the truth is, you don't have priorities. Think harder; don't work harder.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.

The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

That's precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? - Why not you, why not now.

Money doesn't change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.

Learn to accept and bend like the willow. For if you resist, you will break like the oak.

Saving life and avoiding death are typically shorthand for far less evocative terms: lengthening life and delaying death.

I had several girlfriends, but nothing lasted. I’d date one for a few months, and then start thinking: This isn’t what I want.

At a certain point talk about 'essence' and 'oneness' and the universal becomes more tautological than inquisitive.

The Word is the master key for the whole world, inasmuch as through its potency the doors of the hearts of men, which in reality are the doors of heaven, are unlocked.

Our industry [classic music] has kind of retarded into this kind of endless cover-producing thing, and it's a pity.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

I didn't become an actor to have power, but it just happens that I have it and so I have a lot of opportunities.