"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
"The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous."
"If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."
"There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?"
"In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by."
"Dreams do come true, if we only wish hard enough, You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it."
"The only way to enjoy anything in this life is to earn it first."
"I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."
"It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific."
"Everyone and everything that shows up in our life is a reflection of something that is happening inside of us."
"Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life."
"If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we're going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it's our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it's because we're focused on ourselves!"
"Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can."
"Gratitude helps you to grow and expand; gratitude brings joy and laughter into your life and into the lives of all those around you."
"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."
"Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon."
"You can retire from a job, but don't ever retire from making extremely meaningful contributions in life."
"I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see."
"I am very rich because of 'Chic' - artistically as well as spiritually. It's been an amazing life."
"Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age."
"I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed."
"My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
"All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you."
"I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun."