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

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.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

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

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

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

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

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

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.

A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: ‚Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?‘ We must always consider the person.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I don’t want enemies. I want friends, and I want them in all shapes, sizes, and colors, and loving whoever they want to.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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

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

My message is that God is a good God.

Whether or not I like a piece of data has very little bearing on whether or not I am likely to accept it.

We do not judge the people we love.

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.

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.