I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.
We really do prefer to build things rather than destroy things, believe it or not.
See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.
I have ridiculously bad eyesight, but I have learned to live with an impressionistic view. Life is a Monet painting. I wander around enjoying myopia.
Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)
The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs.
I'm pretty easy going, I think.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
If I am happy in spite of my deprivations, if my happiness is so deep that it is a faith, so thoughtful that it becomes a philosophy of life. If, in short, I am an optimist, my testimony to the creed of optimism is worth hearing.
The way I look at life, and the way I look at the reality of Parkinson's, is that sometimes it's frustrating and sometimes it's funny. I need to look at it that way, and I think other people will look at it that way.
Our first mistake is the belief that the circumstance gives the joy which we give to the circumstance.
Everything bad happens to set up something good. I've always found that to be true. I think if most folks look back on the history of their lives, they'll see that.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Failure is just another way to learn how to do something right.
Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort?” If so, he says, “You may be outscored but you will never lose.
The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.
To lose is not always failure.
There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.
Every success creates new opportunities. So does every failure.
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
That’s what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we’ve changed because of it, and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way is winning.
I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.
I have seen the future, and it works.
Prosperity is just around the corner.
