“My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.”

Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.

To be totally without stress is to be dead.

Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.

Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.

Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream.

Stress is the spice of life.

The builder of the best racing car is not necessarily its best driver.

Nothing erases unpleasant thoughts more effectively than conscious concentration on pleasant ones.

Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.

Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.

Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.

To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.

The mind is the most important thing of the big picture and no one has a stronger mindset than amateur wrestlers.

Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.

We will appoint as justices, constables, sheriffs, or other officials, only men that know the law of the realm and are minded to keep it well.

I never wish to be easily defined. I’d rather float over other people’s minds as something strictly fluid and non-perceivable; more like a transparent, paradoxically iridescent creature rather than an actual person.

I ask you to go back and read them over again, and this time answer them keeping in mind that you are writing your children’s future with your answers.

I didn’t arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind.

To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air.

Don’t let your mind control you. Control your mind.