Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

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

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

You need to think outside the box. You need to think differently if you want to sustain what, for me, is my peak performance: the very best that I can achieve as an athlete every day.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

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

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it… anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Words are loaded pistols.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

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

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

We work to become, not to acquire.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

Punk was defined by an attitude rather than a musical style.

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.