Today is the youngest you will ever be. Live like it.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't.

And the question of Wester religion, ” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?

A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.

It is impossible to meditate on time and the mystery of nature without an overwhelming emotion at the limitations of human intelligence.

Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

Some people change. Most people don't. Accepting this makes it much harder for them to disappoint you.

To please the fancy is no trifling good, Where health is studied; for whatever moves The mind with calm delight, promotes the just And natural movements of th'harmonious frame.

If the baby is sick, you won't find me showing up to play my gigs. If I have a contract, there is going to be a clause in that contract saying that if the baby is sick I will not appear.

I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature.

If you believe that what you’re doing will have positive results, it will— even if it’s not immediately obvious.