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

I think that success is having fun.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‚Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?‘ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‚I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?‘

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

For good nurture and education implant good constitutions.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

I never expected to be anybody important.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I like to complain and do nothing to make things better.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Right now, when we’re hearing so much disturbing and hateful rhetoric, it is so important to remember that our diversity has been – and will always be – our greatest source of strength and pride here in the United States.

You fail only if you stop writing.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Peace begins with a smile.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Bad men are full of repentance.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

Whatever you dwell on in the conscious grows in your experience.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Don’t ever doubt yourselves or waste a second of your life. It’s too short, and you’re too special.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.