Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

I didn’t know any gay people in my childhood.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

We do not judge the people we love.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn’t need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Hope is a waking dream.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.