He not busy being born is busy dying.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

I suppose we need not go mourning the buffaloes. In the nature of things, they had to give place to better cattle, though the change might have been made without barbarous wickedness.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Everybody is going to have their critics. It’s easy to get discouraged in life.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

The mineral world is a much more supple and mobile world than could be imagined by the science of the ancients. Vaguely analogous to the metamorphoses of living creatures, there occurs in the most solid rocks, as we now know, perpetual transformation of a mineral species.

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

While musical experts of the world focus on what choir members can do, I would like to focus on what choir members can be.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

No man is hurt but by himself.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

My musical taste and image is going to change naturally. It’s not forced; I do what comes natural to me. Sometimes, I like to be dark… other times, I like to be really light and ladylike.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

The art is long, life is short.

Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.

Life is about growing and improving and getting better.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

I’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don’t adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education… Without a gentle contempt for education no man’s education is complete.

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

The men I idolized built their bodies and became somebody – like Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger – and I thought, ‚That can be me.‘ So I started working out. The funny thing is I didn’t realize back then that I was having a defining moment.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Many a man’s strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Accountability breeds response-ability.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.