See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I’ve been around longer than most of my fans have been alive.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

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.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Perception often lags behind reality, and I can say from experience that the vast majority of public officials in Louisiana are much better than our reputation holds us to be.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

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

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

I’m definitely gaining new fans, and that’s the key of any success… gain more love.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Fight with a happy heart.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

Life is a lively process of becoming.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I’m not a bad person.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Compliment three people every day.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.