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.

We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

I find the whole business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I don’t believe in God but I’m very interested in her.

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.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Christianity supplies a Hell for the people who disagree with you and a Heaven for your friends.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

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

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

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

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Let us read and let us dance – two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

It’s never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

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.

Stop this attitude that older people ain’t any good anymore! We’re as good as we ever were – if we ever were any good.

I don’t see that my majority opinions are going to be undone.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I happen to believe there is evil in the world.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

I’m a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won’t.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ‚em out, I pick the round.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

Success is the child of audacity.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

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.

The man who has the will to undergo all labor may win to any good.

God gave you a brain. Do the best you can with it. And you don’t have to be Einstein, but Einstein was mentally tough. He believed what he believed. And he worked out things. And he argued with people who disagreed with him. But I’m sure he didn’t call everybody jerks.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn’t be done.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

People want to feel hopeful.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.