Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

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.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Everyone calls me Bruno; they don’t ever call me Peter – that was just my government name.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

I always thought of myself as a character actor. I never thought of myself as a leading man.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

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.‘

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.