Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

You get that right tickin’ rhythm, man and its ON!

I believe health care is a basic right. If education – you’re entitled to an education, why wouldn’t you be entitled to adequate health care? Period.

There are wonderful things in Jazz, the improvisation, the liveliness, the being at one with the audience.

Might, could, would – they are contemptible auxiliaries.

Advertisers will want, more generally, to avoid programs with serious complexities and disturbing controversies that interfere with the “buying mood”…and thus fit in with the spirit of the primary purpose of program purchases-the dissemination of a selling message.

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I’m about to get.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.

Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain’t so; it is the sickening grammar that they use.

How dare you settle for less when the world has made it so easy for you to be remarkable?

Success is not to be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but the obstacles he has overcome while trying to succeed.

I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don’t remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I think it’s part of being English, particularly if you are middle-class – you’re always looking to be reminded that you are no good and you are always actually embarrassed about being successful.

There is talk … of our constructing Dnieprostroy through our own means. The means needed are great, several hundred millions. Let us not get into the position of the peasant who, after accumulating a nest-egg, instead of repairing his plough and renewing his equipment, buys a gramophone and goes bankrupt.

To be candid, some people have given positive thinking a bad name. I can’t stand to hear some gung-ho individual say that with positive thinking you can just do ‘anything.’ If you think about that one for a moment, you recognize the absurdity of it.