If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving – as if it were an individual person – its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

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.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

My experience is listen, see, feel – and then think about what you change.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

You can’t move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn’t mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

Luck is believing you’re lucky.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

I don’t measure my success anymore by the Grammys. I can’t because I’ll just end up crushed.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Cruel leaders are replaced only to have new leaders turn cruel.

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I have some good friends of my own who happen to be gay, and when it comes to gay, straight, or whatever, I’m for anything life-affirmative. I’m for gay power, straight power, male power, female power; everybody should feel empowered without oppressing anyone who’s different.

Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.

I can remember when I first went into the Himalayan area way back in 1951. Money, for instance, was not important at all to the local people. But now, finance has become just as important to them as it is to us, and this is a change maybe not for the better.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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.‘

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

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

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

No art can be noble which is incapable of expressing thought, and no art is capable of expressing thought which does not change.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

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