People want to feel hopeful.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

There’s so much about Dolly Parton that every female artist should look to, whether it’s reading her quotes or reading her interviews or going to one of her live shows. She’s been such an amazing example to every female songwriter out there.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I write some country music. There’s a song called ‚I Hope You Dance.‘ Incredible. I was going to write that poem; somebody beat me to it.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

Every collaboration helps you grow. With Bowie, it’s different every time. I know how to create settings, unusual aural environments. That inspires him. He’s very quick.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.

Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

I don’t go to bed at 1 A.M. and wake up at 5 A.M. and say, ‚Let’s see if I can get this done today.‘

The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Anything I do, I want to do it well.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

I subscribe to the myth that an artist’s creativity comes from torment. Once that’s fixed, what do you draw on?

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Forget the past.

You fail only if you stop writing.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

As you think, so shall you become.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.