I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

If you see everything from the point of view of women being victims in some way, you don’t see the wood for the trees. It is better to be a person than a woman.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

We are what we believe we are.

I still think I am the greatest.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

Few people have the imagination for reality.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Life is a song to me.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

I always was a Christian… whatsoever a man thinks in his heart is who he is.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

A lot of guys are able to separate how they act off the court versus how they act on the court.

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

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.