“Worry clogs the brain and paralyzes the thought. A troubled brain can not think clearly, vigorously, locally.”

No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

If you want to enlarge your life, you must first enlarge your thought of it and of yourself.

Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Opportunities? They are all around us There is power lying latent everywhere waiting for the observant eye to discover it.

There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

Success is the child of drudgery and perseverance. It cannot be coaxed or bribed; pay the price and it is yours.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

We cannot rise higher than our thought of ourselves.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Work, love and play are the great balance wheels of man’s being.

Working out is incredibly boring. I swear it’s true that the bigger your muscles get, the fewer brain cells you have.

Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain… you hear them and they’re affixed to you.

Unlike any other nation, here the people rule, and their will is the supreme law. It is sometimes sneeringly said by those who do not like free government, that here we count heads. True, heads are counted, but brains also.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew’s and Albert Einstein’s.

The first virtue of a young man today – that is, for the next fifty years perhaps, as long as we live in fear, and religion has regained its powers – is to be incapable of enthusiasm and not to have much in the way of brains.

My eye, my brain, are images, parts of my body. How could my brain contain images since it is one image among others?

Music bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart. I wish my life had more of it.

I took my grandmother to the emergency room. The doctor said that she was on an artificial life support system, and that although her brain was dead her heart was still beating. I though, “we’ve never had a democrat in the family before”.