Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value.

It is always a joyful spring when your heart can dance and your soul can sing.

Cultivate blessing. Bless yourself. Bless the whole world. Let it be full with love, peace, joy and happiness.

...opportunities typically come disguised as impossible problems. And while most people run away from their problems, Shamgars run at them with their oxgoads.

When you're out in the wilderness and get back to base camp only to discover sleeping bag turndown service….that's no chocolate on the pillow

It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.

We make my opponent out as a monster. We focus on his strengths because that's what we need to negate.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

'But the man who is ready to taste every form of knowledge, is glad to learn and never satisfied - he's the man who deserves to be called a philosopher, isn't he?'

Don’t read Variety. Don’t listen to gossip. Don’t live in L.A., and write.