When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

There are no second acts in American lives.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

WIth football you can have up to 28 guys you consider starters, and if they can pick up the slack when some aren’t playing so well, you don’t have to turn those two game losing streaks into six-game losing streaks.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about dying, but I like to think that I’ve – if it did occur – that I would die peacefully and not make too much of a fuss about it.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Each day brings opportunity for decisions for eternity.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

He was so depressed, he tried to commit suicide by inhaling next to an Armenian.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Thought is powerful in all phases. Even in my career, even in my life, things end up exactly how I visualized them.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Critics only make you stronger. You have to look at what they are saying as feedback. Sometimes the feedback helps, and other times, it’s just noise that can be a distraction.

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.

I’m perpetually lonely.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

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

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.

Be as you wish to seem.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed… It doesn’t give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.