Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

What is true for you is what you have observed yourself. And when you lose that, you have lost everything.

A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment.

Adventure, I well know, is in the heart, not in the view.

The test of true competence is the end result.

The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual's freedom to alter his considerations of space, energy, time and life and his roles in it. If he cannot change his mind about these, he is then fixed and enslaved amidst barriers such as those of the physical universe, and barriers of his own creation. Man thus is seen to be enslaved by barriers of his own creation. He creates these barriers himself, or by agreeing with things which hold these barriers to be actual.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.