The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

I get really motivated when I put on the India jersey. It is a responsibility, so I want to perform in the best way I can.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

If you want special results, you have to feel special things and do special things together. You can speak about spirit, or you can live it.

Every day is a gift from God, no matter how old we are.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I just set a higher goal. That’s how I’ve gotten to where I am.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

You’re not better than anybody else, but you’re not less than anybody else. You’re a child of the Most High God.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth; it’s a shield.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

I put Catholic guilt to work pretty good for a rich rock star.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body – the wishbone.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

If you’re in a workplace you don’t like right now, be encouraged because God will use it for your good. Think about it this way: He wants you to be a light in the darkness – and He’s putting His confidence in you!

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

I’ve never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

Americans never quit.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated, I would be a damn fool.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.