There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

Become aware of your own insufficiency.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It’s a way of life for me.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

The faults of a superior person are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Life must be lived as play.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

I’m chasing perfection.

It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

If we keep doing what we’re doing, we’re going to keep getting what we’re getting.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I am happy and I’m single.

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.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.