It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.

Every good thought you think is contributing its share to the ultimate result of your life.

Let your intentions be good - embodied in good thoughts, cheerful words, and unselfish deeds - and the world will be to you a bright and happy place in which to work and play and serve

Make the most of today. Translate your good intentions into actual deeds.

There is honor in labor. Work is the medicine of the soul. It is more: it is your very life, without which you would amount to little.

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body.

There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.

Keep a definite goal of achievement constantly in view. Realize that work well and worthily done makes life truly worth living.

God is a philosophical black hole – the point where reason breaks down.

That's evolution. Evolution's always hard. Hard and bleak. No such thing as happy evolution

One day someone is going to read my autobiography and say “Wow, what a horror novel

I've never had an interest, but baseball looks abnormal.

Fear is met and destroyed with courage.

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.

When the dog is repeatedly teased with the sight of objects inducing salivary secretion from a distance, the reaction of the salivary glands grows weaker and weaker and finally drops to zero.

We have strict orders: If we talk about it we get fined $50,000.

I think for some reason people are drawn to stories of all kinds, for some reason they land harder when they are "true." And yet in fiction, I think there is a lot of deeper truth, too.