Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.

The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.

Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.

I truly believe that if we keep telling the Christmas story, singing the Christmas songs, and living the Christmas spirit, we can bring joy and happiness and peace to this world.

We tend to get what we expect.

I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.