You cannot live on other people's promises, but if you promise others enough, you can live on your own.

Meticulous planning will enable everything a man does to appear spontaneous.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The successful one has this over his rivals: he knows where he is going.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

The successful always has a number of projects planned, to which he looks forward. Anyone of them could change the course of his life overnight.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

At all times it is better to have a method.

A barrier is of ideas, not of things.

To know the right means of getting something done is virtually to have done it.

The failure wishes he could do things he could never do. He thinks little of what he can do.

Study the scriptures.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

I'm in the mood for another Moonstruck experience, for another romantic comedy.

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success.

If you had to pick between one or the other, I can't say which one is better; but I would certainly say, in my orientation, the light of samadhi is all-pervasive. Samadhi will free you.

The machine is a tool. But it is not a neutral tool. We are deeply influenced by the machine while using it.

So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'

Everything I have in life comes from Knots Landing.

To be compassionate in this hurting world means it will cost you something.