My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Life is so, so short. Bible says it’s like a vapor.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

Art is the proper task of life.

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It’s called living.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

There is no wealth but life.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present.

All ways of living can be sanctified, and for each individual, the ideal way is that to which our Lord leads him through the natural development of his tastes and the pressure of circumstances.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

I’m not a regrets-type person.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

I’m not a bad person.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

I never felt settled or calm. You can’t really commit to life when you feel that.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Nothing on this earth is standing still. It’s either growing or it’s dying. No matter if it’s a tree or a human being.

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.

If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.