Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Hatred is inveterate anger.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

I’ve been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I’ve learned to resist that.

Beware the hobby that eats.

Touring is hard on the body.

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

I got my own back.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I guess I’m living in the present more than the past.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

I don’t think I get that upset over things.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

It’s an offseason. These days are valuable for everybody.

Love is a serious mental disease.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

Now I think that going to the gym is the best drug. I go four times a week and it gives me the buzz I need.

Be pleasant until ten o’clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

We all get weary sometimes, and we tend to think that life is what makes us weary.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Life well spent is long.