There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.

Education doesn’t change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

People won’t have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial ‚we.‘

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

I’m chasing perfection.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

Ego is only fine when it is working for your motivation.

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.

Change is always tough. Even for those who see themselves as agents of change, the process of starting a new thing can cause times of disorientation, uncertainty and insecurity.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Get mad, then get over it.

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I’ve had my breasts lifted – but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway.

Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

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.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

Confine yourself to the present.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

I know love is the answer.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.