One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

I was an OK boxer I wasn't great I was OK but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday Wednesday and Friday usually Saturday afternoons too with a whole bunch of mates and training very very hard for about two-and-half hours.

The very greatest things - great thoughts discoveries inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship often pondered over in sorrow and at length established with difficulty.

People who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.