“Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.”

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.

Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.

God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

We tend to get what we expect.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Live your life and forget your age.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.

A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.

Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.

The largest lesson I learned from Steve was that the joy in life is in the journey, and I saw him live this every day.

Day after day, day after day, We stuck, nor breath nor motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.

You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.

The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away.

I get over a hundred letters a day from all over the world, from children and parents, and it’s a wonder I ever have time to write books, let alone speak!

One of the commonest ailments of the present day is the premature formation of opinion.

Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide.