To the people I forgot, you weren’t on my mind for some reason and you probably don’t deserve any thanks anyway.

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

If you give, you will be blessed.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

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.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us.

The person who doesn’t scatter the morning dew will not comb gray hairs.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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

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.

All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world.

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

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

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

Philosophy begins in wonder.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Every once in a while, you let a word or phrase out and you want to catch it and bring it back. You can’t do that. It’s gone, gone forever.

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?

Humanity I love you because when you’re hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

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

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I pay a lot of tax, and I feel, one of the reasons I stay and pay why I’m not based in Monaco… I think my country helped me.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.