Every wall is a door.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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.

On a spiritual level, it’s as though with my sighted eye I see what’s before me, and with my unsighted eye I see what’s hidden. It’s illuminated life more than darkened it.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

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

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Be not simply good – be good for something.

Your energy, your spirit are important considerations. Feeling petty and frustrated can have reverberating consequences for your ability to think strategically and reach your goals.

There are definitely elements of experience and stuff that someone who’s my age wouldn’t have. But there are also things that I can do that other people wouldn’t necessarily be able to.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.

I still consider it a summer job, though. So, I try to maintain that summer job as long as I can. But it’s exciting to be able to have the opportunity to do things I always dreamed of as a kid.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I wrote my first song at 12 and remember someone asking, ‚What were you going through at 12 that you could write about?‘ I get what you’re saying, but 11, 12, 13 were the hardest years of my life. You learn everything. You learn how horrible things feel.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I think the idea of art kills creativity.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

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

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.