Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

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

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

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

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

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

Those movies sure got me into a rut.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

You can be happy where you are.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

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

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

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

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

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

Everything I’ve been thinking, every vision, even down to every shot I throw, it just ends up here in reality. Whether it was in a fight and how to react or whether it was in a stadium with screaming fans or whether I was in a fancy car or the best clothes ever, I always put myself somewhere.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

A man is what he thinks about all day long.

Peace begins with a smile.

I don’t feel too much pressure. I only see an opportunity.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

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

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.