Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

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.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If I’m going to get you to do stuff, I need to lead you. I can’t just order you to do it.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can. Always stay near me, for tomorrow I will have much to do and more than I ever had, and tomorrow blood will leave my body above the breast.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

I’m very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

I’ve always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.

The greatest difficulty always comes right before the birth of a dream.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

Without failure there is no achievement.

I’m proof against that word failure. I’ve seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.