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

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.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

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

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

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn’t entirely conquer – he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

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

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

I’m a woman, and anytime you tell a woman that she looks nice, it’s not going to upset her.

Every wall is a door.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

It’s good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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.

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

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

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.

My family’s lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.