That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that’s because I’m doing it wrong.

The nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least I can dream.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o’clock is a scoundrel.

I’m much healthier now.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I think that’s why I put my energy into making music. That’s how I get my thoughts out, instead of being crazy all the time.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Instead of being critical of people in authority over you and envious of their position, be happy you’re not responsible for everything they have to do. Instead of piling on complaints, thank them for what they do. Overwhelm them with encouragement and appreciation!

Exercise is labor without weariness.

We’re introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night’s sleep.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

Nothing is worth more than this day.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I eat next to nothing.

I think it’s horrible that people have to be told. Don’t smoke! Everybody knows it’s bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

By any accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once, and there were 13 times I almost and maybe should have died.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

I think women go crazy for a reason. It’s not like it just happens.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.

Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.