To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people’s minds.

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

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

If humans were totally unstructured creatures, they would be… a tool which can properly be shaped by outside forces.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I thought one should have the attitude of ‚What do you care what other people think!‘

Think and grow rich.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

You’re never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you’re never as bad as they say when you lose.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

What you put into life is what you get out of it.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

I tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

People want to feel hopeful.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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.

A Scout is never taken by surprise; he knows exactly what to do when anything unexpected happens.