I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you’re in, you’re gonna worry about raising kids. But it’s champagne problems, too. There are people who can’t feed their kids.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

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

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

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.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

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.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security.

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.‘

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

We’re still in a recession. We’re not gonna be out of it for a while, but we will get out.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

I love life because what more is there?

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

I think hygiene is so important.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I try to encourage all my teammates, and I sure hope that some day all athletes – my kids, high school kids – get the same level of care I get. Because you can play for a long period of time without having knee replacements, without having all the major head trauma that people are dealing with.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

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.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.