“Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.”

“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.”

“Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.”

“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.”

“A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.”

“Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.”

“What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.”

“What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”

“Haters never win. I just think that's true about life, because negative energy always costs in the end.”

“It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul.”

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.”

“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.”

“We are all here for a spell, get all the good laughs you can.”

“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”

“Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.”

“Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.”

“Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.”

“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.”