“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.

This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.

If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.

Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.

The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?

The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.

The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.

I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It’s only in the execution that they fail. I’ve been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it’s a director’s prerogative and you gotta go with it.

Love is perhaps no more than gratitude for pleasure.

When you’re a working actor and you’re happy to be one, you can’t focus all your energy on acting because you will go crazy. You have to focus as much energy as you can away from yourself.

I’ll be happy if I can just stay out of Nebraska.

What we truly desire is happiness, which is truly found without desire.

Get addicted to your happiness, not your pain.

I’ve learned that we should be glad God doesn’t give us everything we ask for.