You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

He who is contented is rich.

One must steer, not talk.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

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.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

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

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

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

I always entertain great hopes.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

The earth laughs in flowers.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

I could not do what I do, and teach a class, and never miss a deadline, never be late for anything if I was a lush, OK? I would really love to read a piece that said, ‚He is not a lush.‘ That would be fabulous, it would be a first, I could show it to people and say, ‚Look!‘

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

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.

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.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.