“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.”

“The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.”

“I believe this with all my heart: The greatest coach of all time in my eyes is my mom. She's instilled in me a toughness and a perseverance and just a never-quit mentality, and I thank her every day for providing me, for what she sacrificed her life for.”

“Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.”

“Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be Revelation.”

“If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples even though some of them still look down on me.”

“All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.”

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.”

“Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.”

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”

“You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.”

“Life is like dancing. If we have a big floor, many people will dance. Some will get angry when the rhythm changes. But life is changing all the time.”

“Life is a succession of moments, to live each one is to succeed.”

“It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.”

“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”

“I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.”

“I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'”

“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.”