Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.

I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.

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.

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.