I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

He is dead in this world who has no belief in another.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

First of all, you ask me if the God of Christians forgives one who doesn’t believe and doesn’t seek the faith. Premise that – and it’s the fundamental thing – the mercy of God has no limits if one turns to him with a sincere and contrite heart; the question for one who doesn’t believe in God lies in obeying one’s conscience.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other’s faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

The reason I became 297 pounds is because that was comfortable. What was very uncomfortable was running. What was very uncomfortable was being on a diet. What was very uncomfortable was trying to face things that I didn’t want to face. And I also realized, when I was really big, I had no growth. Why? Because I was living comfortable.

Life well spent is long.

What we think, we become.

I just want to do God’s will. And he’s allowed me to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Let go of yesterday.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I do believe in self-help.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

Think and grow rich.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.