Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

I want to represent… to the kids to draw strength from me. So they can see that everybody goes through something, but you can rise up and do your best. Just try.

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.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

Not everyone can see the truth, but he can be it.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

Courage – you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn’t want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.

I just get annoyed at myself. A lot of swearing goes on generally when I am driving.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I think you’re working and learning until you die.

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.

I became a beach bum.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Sometimes you have the trends that’s not that cool. You may have certain artists portraying these trends and don’t really have that lifestyle, and then it gives off the wrong thing. And it becomes kinda corny after awhile. It’s really about keeping hip-hop original and pushing away the corniness in it.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Giving is true having.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Never complain. Never explain.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.