Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

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.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

It wasn’t so long ago that I was a working mom myself. And I know that sometimes, much as we all hate to admit it, it’s just easier to park the kids in front of the TV for a few hours, so we can pay the bills or do the laundry or just have some peace and quiet for a change.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

As we know, while our species remains alive, everybody has the sacred duty to be optimistic. Ethically, any other behaviour wouldn’t be admissible.

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.

Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

Labor gives birth to ideas.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Do Lipton employees take coffee breaks?

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

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

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.

I like to be in control of how I look and how I feel and how I act.

Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

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

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

I’ve learned never to say never.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Never leave a rhinestone unturned.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

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.‘

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

The first wealth is health.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.