A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmoved.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

I’ve had a lot of success; I’ve had failures, so I learn from the failure.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

As a bull market turns into a bear market, the new pros turn into optimists, hoping and praying the bear market will become a bull and save them. But as the market remains bearish, the optimists become pessimists, quit the profession, and return to their day jobs. This is when the real professional investors re-enter the market.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

In difficult times, we’re not supposed to quit believing; we’re not supposed to quit growing.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn’t get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I’ve had some dark nights of the soul, of course, but giving in to depression would be a sellout, a defeat.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

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

If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.