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

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

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.

I always entertain great hopes.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

Freedom is relative.

I love life because what more is there?

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

I became a beach bum.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

I wish everyone well, but you need to focus on yourself. You need to stop putting your hand out. Everyone wants hand outs. Everyone wants things for free. You’ve got to put in the work. You’ve got to grind. You’ve got go through the struggle, and you’ve got to get it.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

You know, fame is a funny thing, man, especially, you know, actors, musicians, rappers, rock singers, it’s kind of a lifestyle and it’s easy to get caught up in it – you go to bars, you go to clubs, everyone’s doing a certain thing… It’s tough.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

I’ve been very fortunate.

My secret to staying young… Having no sense of time.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

We work to become, not to acquire.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Be thankful we’re not getting all the government we’re paying for.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Don’t ever play yourself.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

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

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

North Americans don’t understand… that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought.