There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

I’ve lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

One day it will be over, and I don’t care.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

I don’t have many sad days.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

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

I believe in believing. My coach John Kavanagh is a big atheist, and he is always trying to persuade people to his way of thinking, and I think, ‚What a waste of energy.‘ If people want to believe in this god or that god, that’s fine by me; believe away. But I think we can be our own gods. I believe in myself.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

It’s a funny old world.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

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

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

I’ve never considered musical equipment very sacred.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

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

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

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