I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Music is the art of the prophets and the gift of God.

I believe in God – not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being.

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

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you’re a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation.

It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

I would impress upon your minds the fact that if you want to do a man justice, you should believe what a man says himself rather than what people say he says.

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.

Life well spent is long.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

My whole life is a theater piece.

Too many Christians live their lives like slaves – to the devil – because they believe his lies more than they trust God.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

The astronomer will believe that the most erratic comet will yet accomplish its journey and revisit our sphere; but we give up those for lost who have not wandered one-half the distance from the centre of light and life.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

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

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

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

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

The sun doesn’t always shine in West Virginia, but the people do.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one’s own character to himself.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

We should never let material things get ahead of God or become so important in our lives that we can’t walk away from them if He tells us to. Anything you own that has a hold on you is a problem.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Knowing that the time to sleep has come, the Lord sleeps, and does well in sleeping. Often, when we have been fretting and worrying, we should have glorified God far more had we literally gone to sleep.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Life’s like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

If one has the answers to all the questions – that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

I just have an enthusiasm for life.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality – it connects you to reality.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.