We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

I’ve laid my friends bare.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

The average Hollywood film star’s ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

Remember: your bosses prefer to keep you in dependent positions. It is in their interest that you do not become self-reliant, and so they will tend to hoard information. You must secretly work against this and seize this information for yourself.

I think whether you’re having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

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

Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

Anxiety and spiritual searching have been consistent themes with me, and that figures into my worldview. But I tend to make my songs sound like relationship songs.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

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.

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

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.

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

I don’t think there’s an option for me to fall in love slowly or at medium speed. I either do, or I don’t.

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Suppose I criticise Iran. What impact does that have? The only impact it has is in fortifying those who want to carry out policies I don’t agree with, like bombing.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

I don’t have a type. I don’t have a specific kind of human being. It’s just kind of an X-factor of sorts. Everybody I’ve ever dated has been a case-by-case situation.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite – inspire fear and insecurity.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

I mean, families are weird.