Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Act, and God will act.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

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.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Siren voices tell me, ‚You don’t have to keep going on.‘ And then you think, ‚I’m a writer. What do I do? Sit there watching my wife clean up?‘ I don’t know. I like being a writer.

When I’m dancing, I’m not thinking about anything. I am here. I am totally there. You know? And the feeling is a sensation of being away from myself. My soul dances with the angels, and my body dances with my wife.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

Opportunity makes a thief.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I just make good movies. That’s the way I thank my fans.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Don’t let schooling interfere with your education.

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

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Don’t work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Jealousy… is a mental cancer.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I teach children to be winners.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

You know that your happiness and suffering depend on the happiness and suffering of others. That insight helps you not to do wrong things that will bring suffering to yourself and to other people.

Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.