No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

I’ve been blessed to be somebody that’s been climbing that success mountain top for years of hard work, you know, but now it’s all connecting. And now, the whole world is watching, you know what I’m saying, and it feels good ‚cause it’s good energy. This is all positive vibes, and good vibes and good energy, so it feels incredible.

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

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

My mother always wanted to give back.

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 can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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.

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

Compliment three people every day.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I’m a can-do girl.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

I’m not the sort of person who gives up on things. The first time we crossed the Atlantic in the balloon, it crashed, and we went on and did the Pacific. First time we crossed the Atlantic in a boat, it sank, and we went on and got the record. So, generally speaking, we will pick ourselves up, brush ourselves down, and carry on.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

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.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

A saint is tolerant and is attentive to the pleadings of other human beings, not only to spoken messages but to unspoken messages as well.

Nothing can resist the person who smiles at life – I don’t mean the ironic and disillusioned smile of my grandfather, but the triumphant smile of the person who knows that he will survive, or that at least he will be saved by what seems to be destroying him.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

I think there’s just one kind of folks. Folks.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

What I love best in life is new starts.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.