You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

If you’re nice to me I’ll never write anything bad about you.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.

I think that success is having fun.

Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

I focus on my own job.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

There are alway going to be bad things. But you can write it down and make a song out of it.

Let God’s promises shine on your problems.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

I do my job like I breathe.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

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.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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

God’s desire is that we excel.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

When I was nine years old, living on the south side of Chicago, my father was a minister and my mother used to scrub floors. I had seven brothers and four sisters. I told my mama, ‚One of these days I’m going to be big and strong and buy you a beautiful house.‘ That’s all I’ve ever wanted to do with my life, is to take care of my mother.

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.

Failure is not an option. Everyone has to succeed.

We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Nothing will work unless you do.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Where thou art, that is home.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

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

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

You see things; and you say ‚Why?‘ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‚Why not?‘

It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.