In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

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

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

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.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

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.

I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.

Let the path be open to talent.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Jeb Bush, I appreciate you. You a leader. You a Bush.

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

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

I’m sure like everyone else I’m not always the happiest if I don’t do a good job in quali or the race or whatever, so I think beating myself up sometimes makes me work harder.

I think I’ve got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn’t read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

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.

My show ‚The Big House‘ was picked up; they flew me to New York. I’m about to step on stage to announce Kevin Hart’s ‚The Big House.‘ And a hand grabs my shoulder, ‚Kevin no, they just decided to cancel it.‘ It’s a serious smack-in-the-face business, and either you can take it, or you can’t.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

There’s people that tried to celebrate when I lost that got nothing to do with it. That’s not the sign of a champion.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

It doesn’t matter if the water is cold or warm if you’re going to have to wade through it anyway.

The future is called ‚perhaps‘, which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

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

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

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we’ve got more strength than we think we do.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

I’ve always loved black culture; I don’t know any other way to put it. Since I was a kid I loved music and early jazz, Sly and the Family Stone. I’m older – I’m in my early 50s – so you’ll have to excuse me. That was always very exciting to me to connect to the culture on that level.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

In this big ball of people, I’m just one grain of sand on this beach.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

What makes us Americans is our shared commitment to an ideal – that all of us are created equal, and all of us have the chance to make of our lives what we will.

America is the land of the second chance – and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.