The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

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

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

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

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

It’s pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

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

Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.

Never complain. Never explain.

Let the future tell the truth, and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I have really worked, is mine.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Gentleness doesn’t get work done unless you happen to be a hen laying eggs.

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.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

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

There’s a silly notion that failure’s not an option at NASA. Failure is an option here. If things are not failing, you are not innovating enough.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

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

I don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

The Internet is a big distraction.

I’ve often said there’s nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

What a terrible thing to have lost one’s mind. Or not to have a mind at all. How true that is.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

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

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

I do not love to be printed on every occasion, much less to be dunned and teased by foreigners about mathematical things or to be thought by our own people to be trifling away my time about them when I should be about the king’s business.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

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.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

A man who has no office to go, to I don’t care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.