My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I’ve always been a little homemaker.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I’m almost like three people. There’s me the, Dolly, the person. There’s me, the star. And then there’s me, the manager.

I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

Men must know their limitations.

If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

One today is worth two tomorrows.

Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

You have a more interesting life if you wear impressive clothes.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Thinking isn’t agreeing or disagreeing. That’s voting.

What I see, what I went through, what a friend of mine may have went through, whatever – I rap about it.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

A lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

I’ve been on a calendar, but I’ve never been on time.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

I think I became more productive through not having children. I never really had the desire to have them. My husband didn’t want them either, so it worked out well.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

A leader who doesn’t hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

If you would judge, understand.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Presidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in, no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.