I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.

There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it’s usually lousy.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

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

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

I turned away from bikes when I got a bambino kart for my seventh birthday and started doing some karting, just around some cones at home, but I didn’t think at that point I knew I wanted to go into F1, it was more just for fun.

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.

When he speaks to you he speaks with an earnest vibe and an earnest energy.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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.

To all the musicians who are making reggaeton, let’s put some more effort into it and bring something new to the people!

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

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

I have good days and bad days.

To be treated well in places where you don’t expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can’t be a bad thing.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

I went through a period when I felt my film characters were having more fun than I was. It might partly explain why I ended up tattooed or doing certain extreme things in my life.

I’m not a serious person, and I don’t like serious people.

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Any artist, the work you do, if it’s a painting or if it’s a performance, you hope it translates to a common denominator with the people that they see something in their own life in there. Or they see something in somebody else’s life. That’s what’s fun about sharing art.

Never complain. Never explain.

Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what’s underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don’t think it ever will be.

I’m trying to show everybody that I’m a girl, and I’m five foot four, and you can do anything you want, no matter your gender. It’s your world, too!

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that’s safer, doesn’t require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don’t go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won’t laugh at you.

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible but probable.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.