I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

You’re dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

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.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

I think I’ve really exhausted the magical. It was a lot of fun, but I’ve put it behind me for the time being.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

There can be no better grounding for a lifetime as an author than to see humanity in all its various guises through the lens of the reporter for the town.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

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

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

For me, money is not my definition of success. Inspiring people is a definition of success.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

There is no unique picture of reality.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

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.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

Sometimes, if you begin to sing in a halfhearted mood, you can sing yourself up the ladder. Singing will often make the heart rise.