I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life’s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Sometimes God will deliver you from the fire, and other times God will make you fireproof.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

I like to take it easy.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but the postive affirmation of peace.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That’s a part of it.

Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

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.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

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

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

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

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances.

My message is that God is a good God.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.