So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts… to my surprise… almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

You should do what other people do, unless you have a very good reason not to.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

When one door is closed, don’t you know, another is open.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

I always like to take my time and examine the two candidates, see not only the two candidates but the policies they will bring in, the people they will bring in, who they might appoint to the Supreme Court, and look at the whole range of issues before making a decision.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I think that success is having fun.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If we could just find out who’s in charge, we could kill him.

Eight, as you know, is not a good number for a multi-member court.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

In any decision for action, when you have to make up your mind what to do, there is always a ‚should‘ involved, and this cannot be worked out from, ‚If I do this, what will happen?‘ alone.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

I go to Wal-Mart all the time. The one in my hometown of Hendersonville, Tenn., is open 24 hours, so I go there a lot to buy DVDs and stuff like that.

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

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

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.