So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you’re just one more deluded Pollyanna.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Go on thinking that you don’t need to be read and you’ll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won’t feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

What nourishes me also destroys me.

I’m all about evolution. I’m the first person to judge myself.

My heroes don’t have anything special. They have something to tell other people but they don’t know how, so they talk to themselves.

I feel impressed to counsel those engaged in personal challenges to do right. In particular, my heart reaches out to those who feel discouraged by the magnitude of their struggle.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

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.

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.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

A family looks for ways to support and inspire one another.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

Never elated when someone’s oppressed, never dejected when another one’s blessed.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.