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

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

The nice thing is that when people come up to me, it’s the football they remember, not all the other rubbish.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

While there’s life, there’s hope.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

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

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

Everybody likes a compliment.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

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.

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

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

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

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

When I got depressed, I watched Bruce Lee movies. I learned everything from Bruce Lee.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

The devil is a peace stealer, and he works hard to set us up to get upset. But we can learn how to change our approach so we don’t live upset all of the time. And Jesus gives us the best example to follow.

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

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.