When things are going bad, there’s going to be some good that’s going to come from it.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight and you’d think, ‚Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

In all my work, I try to say – ‚You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?‘

I don’t go down the road of condemning.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

I love imperfections.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Watch out for the joy-stealers: gossip, criticism, complaining, faultfinding, and a negative, judgmental attitude.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

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

I’ve been very fortunate.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

I was born in London in England in 1934. I went through, as a child, the horrors of World War II, through a time when food was rationed and we learned to be very careful, and we never had more to eat than what we needed to eat. There was no waste. Everything was used.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

I’ve learned never to say never.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

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!

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

The sun, too, shines into cesspools and is not polluted.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

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

I never go into a situation with any type of expectations.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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