Discipline your mind to see the good in every situation and look on the best side of every event. Discipline your mind to think positively

Discipline your mind to think positively

Change what is into the wonder it can be.

Every article I've read about myself always winds up concluding that I am not, in fact, completely stupid.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!

Farewell, Father," she said. He fell back upon his chair, choking. She laughed, not with mirth or even mockery, but something that was closer to a sob. "You crafted me so sharp, I cut even myself.

[Improvisation ] is been with me all my life. We all do it.

There were times that the kids were upset I wasn't there, those three times a year they needed me. The rest of the time, I'm sure that I wasn't in their thoughts.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

I am comfortable with anything I sing: jazz, gospel, classical. It doesn't matter. I can do it all.