Herbert N. Casson

You will never know true freedom until you achieve financial freedom.

Relish the opportunity to be an outsider. Embrace that label – being an outsider is fine, embrace the label – because it’s the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference.

A productive employee who is kept busy working at his or her job is far more likely to be happy at that job and less likely to look for employment elsewhere.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

I’m a great believer in anything that makes you 1 percent better. So I try everything. Freudian. Jungian. Est. Life Spring. Course in Miracles. Twelve Steps. I have pain from time to time. I have joy from time to time.

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character

You can’t live principals you can’t understand.

My dream was to make $1,000 a week, have a Cadillac convertible and an apartment on Ocean Park where I would’ve thought that would be nirvana.

Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give them yours.

Hope will never be silent.