God will win every contest in life, so stop trying to beat Him at his own game.

Nothing in this world compares to the comfort and security of having someone just hold your hand.

A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination.

One way or another, I think we are all destined to learn the same lessons in life. Universal truths are universal truths. They cannot be changed.

Statistics, likelihoods, and probabilities mean everything to men, nothing to God.

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret.

Life isn't all grand, but it isn't all miserable either.  There's both sweet and sour in every day.  So why focus on the ugly when you can gaze at what's beautiful?  Concentrate on the good.

You will realize one day that all the money in the world cannot buy you happiness. Nor can it make you a person of good character.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

By constantly moving the flashlight of your attention to the perimeter of your understanding, you enlarge your sense of the world.

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

I know a lot of celebrity types go for Kabbalah and Scientology. But why pay 10 per cent of your earnings to someone when it's all common sense: treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself.

Do not hesitate to love and to love deeply.

If you pay too much attention to hate, they win...they bring you down. Too much love in the world to deal with that nonsense. Be positive.

There's no violence coming from the Occupy protesters.

You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.