“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.”