I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place.

The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands.

Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

One of the greatest discoveries a person makes, one of their great surprises, is to find they can do what they were afraid they couldn't do.

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

I`d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

I've always found the second book in a series is the hardest to write.