If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

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

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

People’s minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The most important 6 inches on the battlefield is between your ears.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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.

He who angers you conquers you.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever will be born must destroy a world.

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

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I’d rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

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.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

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.

Reality has a way of intruding. Reality eventually intrudes on everything.

What someone else does or doesn’t do has no effect on me and what I do.

I sell escapism.

Most people don’t like change. They revolt against it unless they can clearly see the advantage it brings. For that reason, when good leaders prepare to take action or make changes, they take people through a process to get them ready for it.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Why shouldn’t truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

If you go back a few hundred years, what we take for granted today would seem like magic – being able to talk to people over long distances, to transmit images, flying, accessing vast amounts of data like an oracle. These are all things that would have been considered magic a few hundred years ago.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.