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“Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.”
Source : A. H. Almaas (2000). “Diamond Heart: Book One: Elements of the Real in Man”, p.7, Shambhala Publications
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“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”
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“Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.”
Source : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010. 
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“Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.”
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“Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.”
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“Death is a door life opens.”
Source : Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”
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“I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.”
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“If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.”
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“The Baptists' basic theology is that if you hold someone under water long enough, he'll come around to your way of thinking. It's a ritual known as 'Bobbing for Baptists.'”
Source : A. Whitney Brown (1991). “The Big Picture: An American Commentary”, Harper Perennial
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“It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.”
