There are going to be good days and bad days. Bottom line.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

We all gonna die eventually from something or other, but don’t be a wimp. Put up a good fight.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

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

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you’re going to have.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

The former colonies, in Latin America in particular, have a better chance than ever before to overcome centuries of subjugation, violence and foreign intervention, which they have so far survived as dependencies with islands of luxury in a sea of misery.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

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.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

I’m tender on the inside.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

I never hold a grudge.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn’t a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

I have a slight bit of OCD, I think. I’m not walking around flipping light switches. But when I say I’m going to do something, I have to do it.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I am sometimes sad when I hear the personal stories of Tibetan refugees who have been tortured or beaten. Some irritation, some anger comes. But it never lasts long. I always try to think at a deeper level, to find ways to console.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

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

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Ambition has become a dirty word, and I believe it is a great evolutionary force for the positive. If people fail or go astray in their ambition I can live with it but not with people lowering their expectations, wasting time, slacking off and glorifying failure and stupidity.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

If you try to protect yourself from pain, it becomes a stone in your heart. But the more you learn to face things, the more likely that stone can become a pearl.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

The worst days are when you feel foggy in the head – chemo-brain they call it. It’s awful because you feel boring. As well as bored. And stupid. And resigned.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.

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.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.