Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

I’m not going to say I’m cool, because I don’t really feel that. I just don’t care at all, and I guess that’s what people think is cool.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

Personally I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Go on, prove me wrong. Destroy the fabric of the universe. See if I care.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

He who is contented is rich.

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

We are what we believe we are.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

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.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

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.

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.

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Think and grow rich.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Lenience will operate with greater force, in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.

The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.