It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The internal effects of a mutable policy poisons the blessings of liberty itself.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

If my life was a movie, no one would believe it.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

Children make your life important.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Some people feel that the world owes them a living.

My whole life has been one big improvisation.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.

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

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I’m praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I’m grateful that I’m heard.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

What we think, we become.

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

Youth is wasted on the young.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

In every parting there is an image of death.

We love things we love what they are.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Death is just life’s next big adventure.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

You can be happy where you are.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

An unused life is an early death.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.