I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there’s purpose and worth to each and every life.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Surely our job while we’re here on Earth is to learn about the world, not to create parallel universes.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God – but to create him.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Never complain. Never explain.

I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

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

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

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

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

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

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Every summer’s mine.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

You’ll see it when you believe it.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

To forget one’s purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

Fear is real, but so is love.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

We want our marriage to be a triumph, not a tragedy.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

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.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss, even though the subject can still be very sad. Because there’s the triumph of coming through and understanding that you have, and that you did it the way only you could do it. You didn’t do it the way somebody told you to do it.