Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.

The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.

It's easy to get on the path of mastery. The real challenge lies in staying on it.

The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.

How to begin the journey? You need only to take the first step. When? There is always now.

Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

Not to dream more boldly may turn out to be, in view of present realities, simply irresponsible.

If you intend to take the journey of mastery, the best thing you can do is to arrange for first-rate instruction.

Voicing out against injustice in the society is championing a just cause.

The Universe Conspires....to get what you truly desire

Because life is not fair, Albert. And the world is conspiring against you.

Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.

Hanks' ideology first came into our zone shortly after 9/11, when he criticized me for asking Hollywood telethon stars to become more aggressive in getting the money to 9/11 families.

Our heart knows what our mind has forgotten - it knows the sacred that is within all that exists, and through a depth of feeling we can once again experience this connection, this belonging.

I like speed in thrillers. It's a rhythm adapted to the subject.

Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.