I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

Never be ashamed! There’s some who’ll hold it against you, but they’re not worth bothering with.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

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.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Years ago, when I first started being a big star, I had fans that were fanatical. It was when ‚Jolene‘ was a big hit.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you’d see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.

Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!

A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I’m writing about New York.

If your mom cries a lot, you probably cry a lot. It’s what you learn.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I’ve never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line’s always been really blurred for me. I’ll hang out with them after the show. I’ll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I’ll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.