My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Just try new things. Don’t be afraid. Step out of your comfort zones and soar, all right?

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Everybody has talent, it’s just a matter of moving around until you’ve discovered what it is.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

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

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

I am not afraid… I was born to do this.

Action expresses priorities.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

I’m such a good lover because I practice a lot on my own.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

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

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I am a good listener. I think that came from my schooling.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Coaching wouldn’t be for me. No, certainly not.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.