The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

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

Falling in love and having a relationship are two different things.

So I’ve seen life as one long learning process. And if I see – you know, if I fly on somebody else’s airline and find the experience is not a pleasant one, which it wasn’t in – 21 years ago, then I’d think, well, you know, maybe I can create the kind of airline that I’d like to fly on.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

You can never get enough of what you don’t want.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

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

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

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.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

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

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.

Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

Back in my days as a chemistry student, I used to be quite a technocrat. I was firmly convinced that scientists would have cornered God and photographed Him in color by 1951.

You’re going to go through tough times – that’s life. But I say, ‚Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.‘ See the positive in negative events.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

I have a memory, and I can just eliminate mistakes when they come up because I’ve already made them.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

Whether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

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

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

It’s fun to be hopelessly in love. It’s dangerous, but it’s fun.

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.