Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

The greatest gift you can ever give yourself is to believe in oneself.

I am the one constant obstacle to my own momentum.

Everything changes as you get older - your mind, your body, the way you view the world.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

For forty years I have been married to one of the greatest women the world has ever produced. All I could produce - small as it may be - was love and loyalty.

Knowledge and power doesn't come from an entity, it comes from within yourself. What can these things tell you, to put five bucks on Snowflake in the third race?

By putting the first-person point of view in a naturalistic perspective, I believe that we may genuinely come to understand it for the first time.

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

Interestingly, young people don't come to you for advice. Especially the ones who are related to you.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.