Thomas J. Vilord

Money itself won’t bring happiness, but it sure makes paying the bills easier.

You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.

It was a feeling I had. People were taught how to think, we’re taught how to feel. We don’t know how to think for ourselves, [and] we don’t know how to feel for ourselves. People say ‘Feel free,’ but they don’t really want us to feel free. I felt a freedom, first of all, doing something that everybody tells you not to do.

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.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

I was afraid to show you this 300 acres that I just purchased that I’m building my first community on – my first five properties on – because I felt like it would be shut down.

Living your words, walking your talk, and talking your walk.

It isn’t what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

Brainpower is the ultimate leverage.

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.