An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Every great achiever knows the power of motivation.

In strength the body only knows itself, is full of itself, its movements, its words, but in weakness is the invisible and the whisperings.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

Under Ed Miliband's leadership, we are changing both our party's structures and culture.

Did it ever strike you on such a morning as this that drowning would be happiness and peace?

Blue grass was the outgrowth of Irish music. As a matter of fact a lot the tunes, a lot of the melodies and the jigs... have different names but are actually the same tunes.

Stupidity is always a capital crime.

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.

A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind.

There is an energy that you carry when you're nurturing another life where you're protecting first - and once you know that cub is out of the way of the hunter's gun, you can be a little more daring.