Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

That’s when you know you’re the greatest: when you’re the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

You cannot let where you are today cause you to get stuck. I’m going to be my best right now. That’s what faith is all about.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

God is a great God! I want to encourage you to expect great things from Him.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

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

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.

When doubt comes against us, we have to lift up the shield of faith. We do this when we open our mouth and say what God’s Word says, rather than grumbling and complaining about the problem.

The experience of pain or loss can be a formidably motivating force.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Just because something didn’t work out your way, or somebody disappointed you, that does not change who you are.

I have survivor’s curiosity, I guess.

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Every wall is a door.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

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

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

My life is a struggle.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

Hope is a waking dream.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

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

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us, and the world will be as one.