The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

This desk of mine is one at which a man may die, but from which he cannot resign.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

You have to be tough and have a lot of faith.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

It’s a curse. I ask God to take this away from me all the time. I do not like being an artist.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Smiles are the language of love.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Seemingly, man has learned to live without God, preoccupied and indifferent toward Him and concerned only about material security and pleasure.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Men want to make women happy.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

The best way out is always through.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

By indignities men come to dignities.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Giving up cannot be an option.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

The course of true love never did run smooth.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.