The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does; Russia.

If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. He has a heart capable of mirth, and naturally disposed to it.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

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

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

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

I’m filthy rich!

Do what you feel in your heart to be right- for you’ll be criticized anyway. You’ll be damned if you do, and damned if you don’t.

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.

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.

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

Well, I mean, to me, I think my ultimate – my ultimate goal is winning championships and – and I understand that me going down as one of the greats will not happen until I, you know, win a championship.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

I loved being Maleficent. I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world.

Nobody can ever say that being negative ever helped them at all – not in any way.

But there is a difference between cozying up to power and being close to power.

Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Money ain’t everything.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is with God. It honors Him when His saints preserve their integrity.

I’m not a bad person.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

Celebrity is ridiculous and silly and it’s mad that people like me are listened to – you know, rap stars and movie stars.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

I’m always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it’s really nasty there but it’s not.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

I’m a can-do girl.

You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.