We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

I love performing, you know, because, like I say, I’m a ham for this stuff.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

I never let schooling interfere with my education.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

I am an example of what is possible when girls from the very beginning of their lives are loved and nurtured by people around them. I was surrounded by extraordinary women in my life who taught me about quiet strength and dignity.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Our character is not so much the product of race and heredity as of those circumstances by which nature forms our habits, by which we are nurtured and live.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

A man’s character is his fate.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

All the scientists and technologists should work in appropriate region, specifically the rural technologies, to transform Indian rural sector.

It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles.

Respect is one of life’s greatest treasures. I mean, what does it all add up to if you don’t have that?

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

If you wished to be loved, love.

When there’s justice and change, you start to see the cleansing of the soul, and that is what I want for people, and I hope it’s okay for me to say those things.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it’s almost impossible to stamp out.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

You can’t be in love with a Google search.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.