A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the read more

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there read more

You don't need an explanation for everything, Recognize that there are such things as miracles -- events for which there are no ready explanations. Later knowledge may explain those events quite easily.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs
to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs
to forget, but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be
happy.

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly
do."
N.B. This quotation is a read more

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly
do."
N.B. This quotation is a paraphrase of a much older quote by Aristotle, which see.

Everyone is born a genius.

Everyone is born a genius.

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a read more

The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.