She was by nature a sunny soul

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Everybody likes a few surprises; it's a perfectly natural human craving.

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skilfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh—also if I win.

‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.

So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!

Cultural creatives take a stand for a more spiritualized, personalized, and integrated culture.

I learned what a lot of women have to do is make the guys in the room think it was their idea, and then you back them up.

Power is at the root of the human experience. Our attitudes and beliefs--positive or negative--are all extensions of how we define and use power.

One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!

Just bc u loved and lost doesn't mean stop loving. If u have a nightmare, does it mean u stop dreaming?

So that's it? Your just going to give up?! After everything that has happened, your not going to even try?! You still don't know..... what truly matters.

Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God.

Casting a film, you can have the greatest actors in a film and it doesn't work. It's a combination of all of the elements.