Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

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

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

I only want my work to make people happy.

We are what we believe we are.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

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

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

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.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

I always entertain great hopes.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

We were poor, but we smiled.

The good is the beautiful.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

Lot of players lose hope because of lack of motivation.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

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.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

That I be not as those are who spend the day in complaining of headache and the night in drinking the wine which gives the headache!

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Man is not made for defeat.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

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.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.