Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.

It’s human nature to gripe, but I’m going ahead and doing the best I can.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

I love the song ‚I Hope You Dance‘ by Lee Ann Womack. I was going to write that song, but someone beat me to it.

Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

All of our problems start in our minds.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Through perseverance many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

Once I’ve written something it does tend to run away from me. I don’t seem to have any part of it – it’s no longer my piece of writing.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Those who create are rare; those who cannot are numerous. Therefore, the latter are stronger.

We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

I’m a can-do girl.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

It’s really hard to guarantee things in life. I guarantee if you get up in the morning and you work out, and you work hard, you will have a better day – 100% guaranteed.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

At the end of the day, I pray for the best.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

My mother told me, ‚Son, nobody else but God knows.‘ And that’s what I’m about – reaching out to the people, crying with them, giving them hope. Visiting the hospital, visiting the kids with cancer, visiting the adults, and stuff like that. That’s what I do.

Even if my songs are quite sad or quite dark, I don’t want my songs to make people sad. It’s very important for me that all my songs have some kind of hope or light.

I remember when I was younger, and in school, our teachers showed us films of plastic in the ocean, starving polar bears and so on. I cried through all the movies. My classmates were concerned when they watched the film, but when it stopped, they started thinking about other things. I couldn’t do that. Those pictures were stuck in my head.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?