Concept

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions.

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment. ~Seneca

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question. ~Orson Scott Card

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball — you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

When they start the game, they don't yell, "Work ball." They say, "Play ball." ~Willie Stargell, 1981

Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz