Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Since I was 16, I’ve felt a black cloud hangs over me. Since then, I have taken pills for depression.

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

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster – closed and forgotten within the first year.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

As you think, so shall you become.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

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

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it’s not.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

I’ve had sleep paralysis.

I think every entertainer’s had nights when things go wrong. I mean you can’t remember everything all the time, and especially if you’re having hard times personally, things going on that you – you know, and then people make it worse. And that makes you feel worse.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

To our brothers in Latin America and the world, we must convey that the Cuban people will overcome.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The difference between us and them, between you and success, is not that you never fail, but it’s how you recover from those failures – is that you keep getting up time and time again. You figure out what you did wrong, and then you make it right. I say that to my kids every day.

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I am sure there’s going to be times when I do things wrong that no one’s going to like and everyone’s going to think I’m terrible and rubbish but I know I’m going to go through those times, and it’s just about understanding that that’s going to happen.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

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

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.