“Remember: The best deceivers do everything they can to cloak their roguish qualities. They cultivate an air of honesty in one area to disguise their dishonesty in others. Honesty is merely another decoy in their arsenal of weapons.”

Actually, your past successes are your biggest obstacle: every battle, every war, is different, and you cannot assume that what worked before will work today.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience.

The worst thing is to sit and whine and complain and obsess about money as if that were the only sign of your worth as a human.

If you are worried about what others might think and about how your position in the group might be jeopardized, then you will never really create anything.

The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self – our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.

Never waste valuable time, or mental peace of mind, on the affairs of others – that is too high a price to pay.

If you’re just letting the time pass at your job, it’s just dead time and you’ll never get it back. If at that job you’re learning and you’re observing and you’re seeing about people and connections, it’s suddenly alive time.

Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life’s artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.

The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Mastery is not a question of genetics of luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stirs you from within.

Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

The human tongue is a beast that few can master.

When you show yourself to the world and display your talents, you naturally stir all kinds of resentment, envy, and other manifestations of insecurity, you cannot spend your life worrying about the petty feelings of others

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

Win through your actions, never through argument.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.

Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.

People generally express more in between their sentences when they’re not speaking. Words are usually there to disguise who someone is or what they’re feeling.

Trump’s election could be a blessing in disguise. This is the opportunity for America to correct itself.

Like all bullies, they’re cowards underneath the swagger.

They say eyes don’t lie, but I mistook the distance in your eyes for depth.

I became an actor so I can show you characters and never have to show you me.

Let me gaze deeper into your eyes and thank the cosmos in disguise.