I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Don’t let anybody make you think God chose America as His divine messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

Believing in progress does not mean believing that any progress has yet been made.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I have always believed in God.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.

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

Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

Be as you wish to seem.

I don’t want to impugn the motives of my colleagues, but my attitude is, speaking just for me, you either believe in border security or you don’t.

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.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

I ain’t here to argue about his facial features. Or here to convert atheists into believers. I’m just trying to say the way school need teachers the way Kathie Lee needed Regis that’s the way yall need Jesus.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

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

Measure your wealth by what you’d have left if you lost all your money.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.

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

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.

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

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Peace begins with a smile.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Why am I here? I’m not lucky. That’s God.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

Once you start doing only what you’ve already proven you can do, you’re on the road to death.

On Sundays when I speak, I hopefully give somebody something that they can use the next day at work or at home.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch.

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

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

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.

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.