It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

We are what we believe we are.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

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.

The Sisters of Notre Dame at St. Aloysius Grade School influenced my life tremendously. This was due to the fact that they encouraged you always to make sure that God is the focus of your life, and they didn’t allow you to do anything except to the very best of your ability.

When I was 11 I became very depressed. It had a lot to do with the climate and ecological crisis. I thought everything was just so wrong and nothing was happening and there’s no point in anything.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

I’m a super-duper over-analyzer. You mix that with self-doubt and pressure, and that’s never healthy.

Bring them on.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

The future will be better tomorrow.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Jiu Jitsu is a great workout both mentally and physically. You want to be strong for it and flexible for it.

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!

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do – anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of – your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

If we’re going to bring out the best in people, we, too, need to sow seeds of encouragement.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

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