One learns to itch where one can scratch.

With a definite, step-by-step plan - ah, what a difference it makes! You cannot fail, because each step carries you along to the next, like a track.

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea.

To begin with, you must realize that any idea accepted by the brain is automatically transformed into an action of some sort. It may take seconds or minutes or longer - but ideas always produce a reaction of some sort.

To know is to control.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

You must give to get, You must sow the seed, before you can reap the harvest.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

This one step choosing a goal and sticking to it changes everything.

You must give to get You must sow the seed before you can reap the harvest.

This one step -- choosing a goal and sticking to it -- changes everything.

'The Ecologist' has lost money from the day it was launched in 1970, and will continue until the last edition is printed. It was never set up as a business venture. It was set up as a campaign, and like all good campaigns, it costs. Its various backers have, over the years, been happy to pay that cost.

Six feet of earth makes us all equal.

God, I love John Cassavetes. Throughout my acting career and continuing to be an actor and grow, I think there have been so many outstanding actresses, and I hope I can live up to the things they created and continue that on. I think Gina Rowlands is an amazing actress.

To sing a simple round is truly an enlightening experience.

Influence is exerted by every human being from the hour of birth to that of death.

We live between the act of awakening and the act of surrender. Each morning, we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night, we surrender to the dark to be taken to play in the world of dreams where time is no more.

I have a lot of mirrors around my house, not because I like to look at myself, but because I like the light and perspective they bring to a room.

Like your home's closets, your financial clutter needs an overhaul every now and again, and the payoff will go far beyond the psychic satisfaction of neatening up.

The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say.

When you have these surprise breakout films that do well, that have good performances in them, it puts a lot of pressure on the Academy to recognize those projects, so it's more of a conversation about what is greenlit.

My rule is: the second you find yourself doing something you hate, quit doing it.

Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.

On the whole, we think of our consumers - other judges, lawyers, the public. The law that the Supreme Court establishes is the law that they must live by, so all things considered, it's better to have it clearer than confusing.

Each of us has come to share the same point of view, that a global e-marketplace is absolutely essential if we are to drive new levels of efficiency for the industry.

You take away the money from Israel? No. That's something we can't do.

In high school, I began to dig my way into Ethiopian history, and began to understand myself as a young man formed by multiple narratives.

It's about listening first, then selling.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.