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“Its easier to go from failure to success than it is from excuses to success.”
Book Sometimes you win Sometimes you Learn
“It is surely easier to confess a murder over a cup of coffee than in front of a jury.”
“I don’t rely on any sources other than my own compatriots.”
As quoted by Deborah Solomon, New York Times: Questions for Reza Pahlavi http://www.rezapahlavi.org/details_article.php?article=379&page=4, The New York Times, June 26, 2009.
Interviews, 2009
“You're better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve.”
Hays translation
Source: Meditations (c. AD 121–180), Book IV, 32
“Self-perception is more important than any other factor in predicting success.”
Future Proofing You (2021)
“Perfect happiness can consist in nothing else than the vision of the Divine Essence.”
Source: Summa Theologica (1265–1274), I–II, q. 3, art. 8 co
“The wise man's rule is worth much more to him than the fool's revenue.”
Pt. II, Lib. III, Ch. III.
Guzmán de Alfarache (1599-1604)
“Men have died for this music. You can’t get more serious than that.”
Epigram —Dizzy Gillespie
Source: Moon Over Soho (2011)
“More rogues than honest men find shelter under habeas corpus”
1820s Gold treasure United States, 1860s
“It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.”
On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2002), Oration 27
“In the whole range of evil thoughts, none is richer in resources than self-esteem.”
On Discrimination, vol. 1, p. 46
The Philokalia
“All equally truthful: number 1 is not more or less important than 35.”
1990s
“I was more fucked-up than Courtney Love at the Pamela Anderson roast!”
You Can't Fix Stupid
“You're truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
The Book of Martha
Bloodchild and Other Stories (1995)