a few hours with Beethoven are more restful than sleep.

Success is an absurd, erratic thing. She arrives when one least expects her and after she has come may depart again almost because of a whim.

Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.

There is romance in coffee. It comes from the ends of the earth, and goes to the far corners of man's habitation.

... the deep experience of the lonely climb on the mountain of success brings a wealth beyond power to compute. To you all suffering is understandable and your heart opens wide in sympathy.

One must eliminate the traditional and cling to the essential.

Really to succeed, we must give; of our souls to the soulless, of our love to the lonely, of our intelligence to the dull. Business is quite as much a process of giving as it is of getting.

The small perplexities of small minds eddy and boil about you. Confident from the experience that has led you out of these same dangers, you attack each problem as it appears, unafraid.

for the poor the whole world is a self-constituted critic; your smallest action is open to debate. No secret place of your soul is safe from invasion.

Not only is orderliness an economy; it produces rest.

I simply don't believe in failure. In itself, it doesn't exist. We create it. We make ourselves fail.

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

Shallow men believe in luck wise and strong men in cause and effect.

Kindness connects to who you are, while niceness connects to how you want to be seen.

The Buddha would never speak about enlightenment. The way he taught people about enlightenment was they meditated with him. He exposed them to countless views of the nagual.

Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions.

You must lose yourself if you want to be successful in animation and be the character.

The law of self-fulfilling prophecy says that you get what you expect. So why not create great expectations and the highest vision possible of yourself and your world?

I'm an agent of change all day long, and I want to meet other people like that.

The established order has too many self-protecting economic entities, and not enough people who yet understand what it takes to change.