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

The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.

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

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.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

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.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

I’m a mentor to anybody who’s interested.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England – you couldn’t have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things.

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

Frankly, I think that the news industry is critically important because it points out things and surfaces truths that can often be uncomfortable. I think that that’s working, and the spotlight has been pointed on things that we have a responsibility to do better, and I accept that.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

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.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

I love being American, and I love family. I love having a family, and I feel so blessed, and I feel like God gave me exactly what I wanted, so now I have to do the right thing in God’s eyes also. Just follow what God wants me to do.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

I thought I would try to be gay for a while, but I’m just more sexually attracted to women. But I’m really glad that I found a few gay friends, because it totally saved me from becoming a monk or something.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Everyone here has the sense that right now is one of those moments when we are influencing the future.

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 first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with golden light.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

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

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

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.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.