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.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

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

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 am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

When you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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