There’s a scripture that says, ‚A merry heart doeth good like medicine.‘ I think that’s true, too.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I’m doing, I always tell myself, ‚You can do better than this.‘

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

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.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

A true man hates no one.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

If we say it long enough eventually we’re going to reap a harvest. We’re going to get exactly what we’re saying.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

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.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

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

I try to look on all the great things God’s done, and not focus on the negative. It’s a perspective.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

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

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.

I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.

People will try to bring you down, but you gotta go up.

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.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

I don’t digest things with my mind.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Well, there are some things that I just can’t get out of my head, and they start to annoy me after a while. Sometimes they’re of my own creation, as well – and they’re just as annoying. It’s not only other people’s ear worms that bug me, it’s my own, as well.

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

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

I never really had the classic struggle. I had faith.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.