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

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

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

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

Power is given only to those who dare to lower themselves and pick it up. Only one thing matters, one thing; to be able to dare!

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

It is only in our decisions that we are important.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

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

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I always entertain great hopes.

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

You can be happy where you are.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

I’m not sure what you need first – the players believing or others believing in them – but in the end, both have to think it.

I come from – I came from Wales, and it’s a strong, butch society. We were in the war and all that. People didn’t waste time feeling sorry for themselves. You had to get on with it. So my credo is get on with it. I don’t waste time being soft. I’m not cold, but I don’t like being, wasting my time with – life’s too short.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

What we need to do is always lean into the future; when the world changes around you and when it changes against you – what used to be a tail wind is now a head wind – you have to lean into that and figure out what to do because complaining isn’t a strategy.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

When something an affliction happens to you, you either let it defeat you, or you defeat it.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

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.

I get up every morning and say, ‚Father, give me strength today, not strength so I can lift 500 pounds, but give me strength, Lord, so when I speak, my words might motivate, might inspire somebody, Lord, when they see me, let them see you. When they hear me, Lord, let them hear you. In your holy name I pray.‘

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

There are times when you throw an interception and you’re beating yourself up.

I know for sure that loves saves me and that it is here to save us all.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

What is normal? Normal was yesterday. If you lose a leg, one day you’re hopping around on one leg, so you know the difference.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want.

Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I’m learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, ‚I can’t go to Kmart. I can’t take my kids to the haunted house.‘

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I can express myself.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

My pride fell with my fortunes.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.