Seriousness is a disease of the ego

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.

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.

Each moment of our life, we either invoke or destroy our dreams. We call upon it to become a fact, or we cancel our previous instructions.

I will liken my judgment unto a ring: like as there is no slackness of the last, even so there is no swiftness of the first.

Death is only final when you know you're not going to see them again!

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

It's important to fight for your character but at the same time realize there's a bigger picture involved and, you know, this is a character that's shared by everybody. It's not just purely your own.

Nobody gets any guarantees.

A guitar is more than just a sound box... it is part of your soul.

Frederick Buechner brings the reader to his knees, sometimes in laughter, sometimes in an astonishment very close to prayer, and at the best of times in a combination of both.

Having said that, I'm a huge Jack Nicholson fan because he just goes nuts in everything he does. Having Jack in his heyday would also be a dream come true.

I guess I love mischief as much as Amelia Bedelia. I simply enjoy laughing at life.

For the ordinary man, whose mind is a checkerboard of criss-crossing reflections, opinions, and prejudices, bare attention is virtually impossible.