This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best!

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.

Opportunities are like sunrises. If you wait too long, you miss them.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Study while others are sleeping; work while others are loafing; prepare while others are playing; and dream while others are wishing.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.” —

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings.

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.

Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.

A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering.

All the things she planned to feel, the way she planned to look and seem, the appropriate things she planned to say. None of them came to pass.

My first year on 'SNL', I made $90,000 dollars.

My ex—may he soon discover tiny worms have invaded his body and are slowly eating him alive—once told me God made men so perfect because He'd wanted to make up for the inadequacies of women.

If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?

Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.

I don't want to crawl over the entrails of past disputes.

The wise man never loses his temper.

It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice