When you do something beautiful and nobody notice, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

This is a wonderful day. I’ve never seen this one before.

Every day may not be good, but there’s something good in every day.

She woke up every morning with the option of being anyone she wished. How beautiful it was that she always chose herself.

It's so easy to be grateful for a flower, for a bug, for a beautiful day.

Farewell a word that must be and hath beenA sound which makes us linger yetfarewell

Humor and laughter - not necessarily derogatory derision - are my pet tools. This may come from my general philosophy of never taking the world too seriously - for fear of dying of boredom.

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they were constantly discussing your second year of college. I'm not back there anymore. I'm living in the present.

I think feminism is about the spirit.

I'm not paranoid, no. I'm different in that I have enemies. Very real ones.

If you focus on the possible when you experience difficult situations YOU CAN positively change your outlook reduce your stress and concentrate on achieving things that otherwise may not have been possible.

We can stop the cycle of animal homelessness and save lives by opening our hearts and homes to a loving cat or dog from an animal shelter instead of buying animals from breeders or pet shops.

It's better to travel hopefully than to arrive

We say that time passes, time goes by, and time flows. Those are metaphors. We also think of time as a medium in which we exist.

There is not a doubt in my mind that the people of America are hunkered down. They are afraid.

Insurrection by means of guerrilla bands is the true method of warfare for all nations desirous of emancipating themselves from a foreign yoke. It is invincible, indestructible.

Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But there is so often a forsaking the ways of the Lord in the hour of trial, and thus the food of faith, the means whereby our faith may be increased, is lost.

I think that 'Fox News' is fair and balanced.

Now, the United Nations is an organization that I believe was founded with good intentions. As a matter of fact, a prominent Tennessean named Cordell Hull was very involved with it.

Obstacles, of course, are developmentally necessary: they teach kids strategy, patience, critical thinking, resilience and resourcefulness.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

Art can't be taught; passion can't be taught; discipline can't be taught; but craft can be taught. And writing is both an art and a craft.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.

At the end of the day, you're responsible for yourself and your actions and that's all you can control. So rather than be frustrated with what you can't control, try to fix the things you can.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.

You could think of extraordinary examples to the contrary: The Grapes of Wrath... and even into the 70s.

You can't achieve major goals with minimal work.

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

Mother's love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.