Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.
Shall I redirect my life's journey because down some side road might be some trifle I'm entitled to?
In the world of business, the people who are most successful are those who are doing what they love.
It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.
Life is a toy made of glass; it appears to be of inestimable price, but in reality it is very cheap.
There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
In order to have faith in his own path, he does not need to prove that someone else's path is wrong.
A warrior of light knows that in the silence of his heart he will hear an order that will guide him.
Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.
When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.
I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.
I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
In the midst of death we are in life. Life is the only reality; what men call death is but a shadow.
There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for.
I've always subscribed to an old Chinese proverb that the palest ink is better than the best memory.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it and what you do simply proves what you believe.
Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.
The closer you get to your dream, the more your personal legend becomes your real reason for living.
Each human being was given two possibilities: action and contemplation. Both lead to the same place.
We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Our selfishness will condemn us to the worst suffering that we ourselves have invented - loneliness.
Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
He (the Shaman) is a self-reliant explorer of the endless mansions of a magnificent hidden universe.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division.
A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.
Everything possessed the power to transform itself, or else, and what meant more, to be transformed.
Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself.
I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability.
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.
The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.
While they flail about, you will remain calm in the knowledge that you possess strength from within.
What I know is, is that if you do work that you love, and the work fulfills you, the rest will come.
When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.
Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man.
All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness.