No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

Your friend is your needs answered.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

It’s always interesting about God because it’s like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

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.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

If you are the kind of person who is waiting for the ‚right‘ thing to happen, you might wait for a long time. It’s like waiting for all the traffic lights to be green for five miles before starting the trip.

Americans… still believe in an America where anything’s possible – they just don’t think their leaders do.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.

Everybody likes a compliment.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

I wish that the Indians believed me a god, for upon the report of an enemy’s valor oftentimes depends the success of a battle, and false reports have many times done as great things as true courage and resolution.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

What women need to understand is that men don’t communicate. It’s not intentional or on purpose. We’re just not as emotional. You ladies feel like you have to express yourselves.

It is very hard to not be able to engage with people in a real and honest way because they either want something from me, or they see me as something that I simply am not.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

I have promised myself that I’m going to do everything I can for as long as I can.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

The only way round is through.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.

To get a hold on boys you must be their friend.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

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.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

I’ll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it’s disappointing.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.