I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Each day provides its own gifts.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

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

I don’t have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

I’m grateful for always this moment, the now, no matter what form it takes.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I don’t regret anything.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don’t have to riot.

I don’t throw lavish parties or nothing like that – I just want a bed and a TV.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

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

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

I never thought I’d land in pictures with a face like mine.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else’s.

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

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.

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.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

There isn’t anybody that looks like me without clothes on.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

He who is contented is rich.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

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

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

I love great journalism. I appreciate it. I love a good, you know, I love good news stories. I love great books. I love great articles. I appreciate them so much, and they’ve been part of my education as a woman.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

If you are against yourself, you will never reach your highest potential. And when you criticize yourself, you’re criticizing God.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.