I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.

It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

Power is competence.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

Sometimes in the past when I played something might make me lose focus, or I would go home after a game where I thought I could have played better and I would let it hang over my head for a long time when it shouldn’t.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I’m a can-do girl.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

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

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don’t want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you’re not performing at your best.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going – I have no post-satisfaction.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

Why go through life if you’re not going to challenge yourself?

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Because my dad abused me, I was determined to never let a man tell me what to do. God clearly showed me that I needed to be a submissive wife if I wanted to be effective in ministry. The truth is, if we don’t learn to submit to authority, we won’t ever learn to submit to God.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

I came up from a difficult background.

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.