Peace begins with a smile.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Let us recollect that peace or war will not always be left to our option; that however moderate or unambitious we may be, we cannot count upon the moderation, or hope to extinguish the ambition of others.

A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Life’s too short to deal with other people’s insecurities.

This is not a bad life.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

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

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

We never look deeply into the quality of a tree; we never really touch it, feel its solidity, its rough bark, and hear the sound that is part of the tree. Not the sound of wind through the leaves, not the breeze of a morning that flutters the leaves, but its own sound, the sound of the trunk and the silent sound of the roots.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

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

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.

There’s people constantly asking you for something on set, so the multi-tasking of motherhood transfers very well to being a director. And I think you’re compassionate.

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.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

A fit body gives you confidence. And there’s nothing more impressive than a great attitude, which you can wear on your sleeve. But you’ll have to remember the difference between being rude and being confident.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Encouragement to all women is – let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let’s see if we can’t prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

I have a heart of gold, but I’m really a marshmallow in my heart.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

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

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

‚Suffering should not make us bitter people,‘ my mother once said, ‚it should make us better comforters.‘ Young people need to hear this from those who have walked before them, because someday they’ll be walking those same steps, but there may not be anyone following behind.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.