You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we’re going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future.

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.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.

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.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Over the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

In all my work, in the movies I write, the lyrics, the poetry, the prose, the essays, I am saying that we may encounter many defeats – maybe it’s imperative that we encounter the defeats – but we are much stronger than we appear to be and maybe much better than we allow ourselves to be. Human beings are more alike than unalike.

Never complain. Never explain.

I think it’s OK to be confident in yourself.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don’t care who people are as long as they’re themselves, whatever that is.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I don’t like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Dealing with backstabbers, there was one thing I learned. They’re only powerful when you got your back turned.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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

My mother raised me with God. We were poor financially, but we were rich spiritually.

Most of us aren’t defeated in one decisive battle. We are defeated one tiny, seemingly insignificant surrender at a time that chips away at who we should really be.

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.‘

We will move forward, we will move upward, and yes, we will move onward.

I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, ‚Dang, she looks good for her age!‘

The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back.

I’m not afraid to look like an idiot.

We have a choice about how we take what happens to us in our life and whether or not we allow it to turn us. We can become consumed by hate and darkness, or we’re able to regain our humanity somehow, or come to terms with things and learn something about ourselves.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

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

Courage is a kind of salvation.

You will never exaggerate when you speak good things of God. It is not possible to do so. Try, dear brethren, and boast in the Lord.

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?