Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Take off your bedroom slippers. Put on your marching shoes,‘ he said, his voice rising as applause and cheers mounted. ‚Shake it off. Stop complainin‘. Stop grumblin‘. Stop cryin‘. We are going to press on. We have work to do.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I’m a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we’re blindly optimistic.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Sometimes you need faith and victory spoken over your life. Words have created power. When you receive them into your spirit, they can ignite seeds of increase on the inside.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I don’t have many sad days.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

See any detour as an opportunity to experience new things.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.

Fight with a happy heart.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

That old law about ‚an eye for an eye‘ leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

From caring comes courage.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.