When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Encourage everyone you meet with a smile or compliment. Make them feel better when you leave their presence and they will always be glad to see you coming.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Love can melt the hardest heart, heal the wounds of the broken heart and quiet the fears of the anxious heart.

I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be.

Don't be afraid to step out, have dreams, have visions, have hopes and always, always, always believe in miracles.

A positive attitude gives you power over your circumstances instead of your circumstances having power over you.

When we are truly confident and secure, the opinions of others cannot control us.

He who has never imitated anyone is known as one with intelligence.

Stars were golden unicorns neighing unheard through blue meadows.

The public doesn't want new music the main thing that it demands of a composer is that he be dead.

I have never - I have never let go of my childhood contacts. My best friends from childhood are still my best friends.

You can call me 10 times a day to pay this bill but, I do not owe your company any money.

Hopefully the only things off-limits are crummy jokes, but being a standup comedian, I know that's not always the case... You know it when you have to take a shower afterward.

We must take situations as they are. We must only change our mental attitudes towards them.

Love itself cannot be divorced from the suffering which comes from being separated from the object of love.

As far as I remember, there was no actual lyric written to that.At the very beginning of "Fiddler on the Roof," there's a violin solo, an unaccompanied violin solo.

Without theory we can only copy.