I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

I’m not the most patient of people.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

No matter how bad any situation, cynicism has no positive impact. Watching the news, you might notice that cynicism and victimhood often seem to go hand-in-hand, but not for veterans.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one’s own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

Fun is good.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, ‚O God, forgive me,‘ or ‚Help me.‘

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Funny is the world I live in. You’re funny, I’m interested. You’re not funny, I’m not interested.

I’m a can-do girl.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

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

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness.