The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

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.

Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It’s always been my way of expressing what, for me, is inexpressible by any other means.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

Prayer is such a basic foundation of a Christian’s relationship with God. It’s how we communicate and fellowship with Him. But a surprising number of people, young and old, new and even long-time Christians, say they’re not satisfied with their prayer life.

I’m sure most parents read to their children to explain what certain things mean. So books are a good way to convey a message to anybody. Everybody reads.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

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.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

I always keep my guard up with guys and I guess that can get in the way sometimes. I can make them go through hell.

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It’s all those things that add up to the person you become.

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

I think, a lot of times when you meet someone, you feel like you need to appear like you’re not interested in them so that they’ll be more interested in you. But what happens when you start showing him that you actually like him? What’s he gonna do then? Play the tape forward; how do you keep a guy like that? I don’t want to sign up for that.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

The American people are entitled to see the president and to hear his views directly, and not to see him only through the press.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

No one is ever successful at everything that they do.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Being politically correct means saying what’s polite rather than what’s accurate. I like to be accurate.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

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

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.