I never took the fame too seriously. It was a great period in my life, but it doesn't define me.
Psychiatrists look for twisted molecules and defective genes as the causes of schizophrenia, because schizophrenia is the name of a disease. If Christianity or Communism were called diseases, would they then look for the chemical and genetic "causes" of these "conditions"?
He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.
Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.
I am very fond of sunsets. Come, let us go look at a sunset.
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
Look at how goddamn ugly the stars are.
What you resist persists. And only what you look at, and own, can disappear. You make it disappear by simply changing your mind about it.
The more you look, the more you will see.
Look at World War II, at Hitler's cruelty. The more cruelty, the more enthusiasm for revolution.
Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred.
Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.
Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute.
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back.
Look at the US, look at Russia. Both of these countries are immense geographical territories. But, nowadays, immense territories amount to nothing!
The Devil ... is much better served by exploiting our virtues than by appealing to our lower passions; consequently, it is when the Devil looks most noble and reasonable that he is most dangerous.
I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest steppingstones to success. No other element can do so much for a man if he is willing to study them and make capital out of them. Look backward. Can't you see where your failures have helped you?
He who accuses another of wrong should look well into his own conduct.
The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that very few people can afford it.
Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.
