Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

If you round out your edges, you lose your edge.

Being your true self is the most effective formula for success there is.

It's not the imbalances of life that will get you down-it's doing meaningless things that aren't taking you where you want to go.

You don't have to be fearless. Just be sincere.

The secret to success: Do what you say you're going to do.

Knowing how you actually want to feel is the most potent form of clarity that you can have.

First. get clear on how you want to feel. Then, do stuff that makes you feel that way.

We must have the daring to be nothing but ourselves if we are to know what true power is.

Shift your energy from protecting yourself from failure to squeezing the life out of life.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

They want me to contain the raging fires within me. They need me to appreciate glowing embers, to understand that even weak flames need to be managed with a lot of careful planning.

The strengthening of faith, I think, is the ultimate goal of organized religion altogether.

You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them.

I really, really enjoy music and that's why I do what I do.

While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw--that of outright unreadability.

If you're going to be a good standup, or a successful standup, or a standup who can work for money, you have to eliminate the possibility of dying quickly.

It is the simplest fact of Indian life: there are too many Indians.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

I think people are wise to keep love and work separate.

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.