A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

My drive is other people’s success.

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night – and I’d dream about it being me.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I have the ’77 Million Paintings‘ running in my studio a lot of the time. Occasionally I’ll look up from what I’m doing and I think, ‚God, I’ve never seen anything like that before!‘ And that’s a real thrill.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

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.

I had to get rich so I could sing like I was poor again.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.

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.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

In every walk of life, you must have leaders. An education in the spiritual world, in the labor field, in the agricultural field, we must have leaders.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

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

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

Giving up cannot be an option.

Young people can create beautiful things.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I hope my story inspires everyone out there to keep hustling and chasing their dreams.

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.

Now that I understand that I’m an addict, I definitely have compassion for my mother. I get it.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

I don’t know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in this treasure house, the Bible?

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

I thank God I’m in a position where I can pick and choose – there are some roles I don’t play.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith.