Little things affect little minds.

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

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Certainly I’m not going to sit on the Internet all day and read what Sam from Iowa is saying about me. But I’m a sponge. I’ve always been a sponge.

It’s only I have seen enough of it and the funny thing is now, I know that I’m skinny, because I know there are even smaller clothes in the store. I think I’m big, when I was big, I never thought about it.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

I’ll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They’re too much fun.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Think and grow rich.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Without being the most confident person in the world, I think I am the right person for Liverpool.

Sometimes if you got a problem deep rooted in your life, it takes a little bit of time to overcome it in that area.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

I think we need more idiot control.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

In retrospect, I can see I couldn’t talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

Always do whatever’s next.