God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

God is more interested in your future and your relationships than you are.

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.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

Music will never go away, and I will never stop making music; it’s just what capacity or what arena you decide to do it.

I can’t say this enough – the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you’re stronger, you think more quickly.

Never mistake motion for action.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

I’m a child of God first. Before I became a celebrity, I was baptized a Christian.

When I’m in the house of God, I don’t wear my jewelry, if you’re looking for my jewelry. All you see is my heart of gold.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Mr. T. been to chemo, Mr. T been to radiation, hair fall out… but he’s back. Now I can give hope when I go to the hospital, see the sick kids with cancer, tell them, don’t quit.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

All I have to say is basically if performing, singing, acting, and dancing is what you want to do, then you just have to do it – no matter where it is.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

Well done is better than well said.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

I believed in God when cancer come to me. Now when I speak, I speak with authority because I’ve been there.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

I teach children to be winners.

Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Strength and compassion are not mutually exclusive.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

I will continue to believe that Israel’s security is paramount.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.