The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

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

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

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

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

Preparation for a mission is important. A mission is a voluntary act of service to God and humankind. Missionaries support that privilege with their personal savings. Parents, families, friends, and donors to the General Missionary Fund may also assist.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

When I was growing up, there was nobody in my family – not even my mother – who I could look to and be like, ‚I know you’ve never said anything homophobic.‘ So, you know, you worry about people in the business who you’ve heard talk that way. Some of my heroes coming up talk recklessly like that.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I have often been asked what I think about at the moment of take-off. Of course, no pilot sits and feels his pulse as he flies. He has to be part of the machine. If he thinks of anything but the task in hand, then trouble is probably just around the corner.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

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.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you, but your opinion that these things are insulting.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

When I write, it’s like choosing which shoes I’m going to put on. More often than not, my lyrics are personal – but I sometimes have to put myself in other people’s shoes.

It’s a tragedy, in a way, that Americans are brought up to think that they cannot feel for other people and other beings just because they are different. They think they’re different. It’s very limiting.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I can handle pain.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

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

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.