More than anything else, what differentiates people who live up to their potential from those who don't is a willingness to look at themselves and others objectively

Be wary of the arrogant intellectual who comments from the stands without having played on the field.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

There is nothing to fear from truth....Being truthful is essential to being an independent thinker and obtaining greater understanding of what is right.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I've had.

Principles are what allow you to live a life consistent with those values. Principles connect your values to your actions.

If you don't own Gold, you know neither history nor economics.

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.

To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.

If you have the power to see things through somebody else's eyes, it's like going from black and white to color or two dimensions to three dimensions.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Agree with an idiot and you're only one step away from turning into one yourself.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

I have learned to smoke because I need something to hold onto.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23.

You just can't take yourself too seriously, especially in comedy.