“Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.”

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.

Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.

If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.

Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.

One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

I’m an easy target because of my political opinions.

It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

My advice to teens is to try and do something that scares you every day because it’s the only way you can test how far you can really go.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

Learn how spirit works, a few simple rules, living a perfect spiritual life is easy,

It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day’s end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.

Little Zac had it easy – but he didn’t realize he had it easy, so he took it for granted.