There are many victories worse than a defeat.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

If you have to stand and fight, you train yourself so that you’re able to do it.

I believe everyone should have a broad picture of how the universe operates and our place in it. It is a basic human desire. And it also puts our worries in perspective.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

This above all, to refuse to be a victim.

Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

He who is contented is rich.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

It’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.

The reward of suffering is experience.

I probably wouldn’t have made it this far if I were a refugee.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

The only way round is through.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

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

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Things do not change; we change.

Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches.