The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

College isn’t in everyone’s hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn’t mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.

Money does not change people, people change.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I’m very aware and very conscious of the path I chose in life, and very aware of the path I didn’t choose.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

My mother did not like children.

Everything that enlarges the sphere of human powers, that shows man he can do what he thought he could not do, is valuable.

We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

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’m of the school of thought where if you can’t sort something out for yourself then no one can help you.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

I’m not going to stop having problems.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I sometimes have a tendency to walk on the dark side.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

Every single one of us has a few months here or there that feel like dark months.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I’m an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I’ll go stand in the corner.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

When you start to realise how much of what you’ve constructed of yourself is based on deception and lies, that is a horrifying realisation.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.

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

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.