There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.

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

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

I’m confident with my ability.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

When you’re doing a film and the majority of the film is cast black, for me, it’s most important to get people to view those movies as just movies, as just good movies. At the end of the day, regardless of the color of the cast, we’re all doing the same thing in this business: trying to make a good film.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

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

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

I don’t ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing ‚cos that’s just… that’s just telling yourself a lie.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Life doesn’t require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

To be in opposition is not to be a nihilist.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.