We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope those problems will have gone away.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

I’ve got a woman’s ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

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.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

You can be happy where you are.

We do not judge the people we love.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

All great achievements require time.

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

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

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

I’m very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks.

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.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

I think I have the nicest fans in the world, and I quite like being surrounded by people if we’re all feeling the same emotion in the same room.

I’m confident with my ability.

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.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I always try to put a seed of hope into people’s hearts. I’m not there to teach them doctrine necessarily, but to let them know that God is a good God, and has a plan for their lives. Hopefully, that will restore their faith, or draw them into faith.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.