Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I like to work and am a focused person.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

We learned about dignity and decency – that how hard you work matters more than how much you make… that helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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.

Stand-up is hard. Or to keep it at a certain level is hard: I have no writers but me.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

To make headway, improve your head.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

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

I got my own back.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

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

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

Nobody is my boss.

There’s a reason that I have confidence out there, and it’s about how I prepare for games and for series and seasons and whatnot, so we’ve got to stick with that kind of thought process.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

I don’t want followers.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

Theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap – it is all in the mind.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

When people are lame, they love to blame.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

My parents pretty much realized that I would do whatever I wanted, and that was it, really.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

I think that we have opportunities all around us – sometimes we just don’t recognize them.