The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

Brad and I have never wanted our kids to be actors, but we also want them to be around film and be a part of Mommy and Daddy’s life and for it not to be kept from them, either. We just want them to have a good, healthy relationship with it.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

Your body has space within you that cannot die.

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Physical strength can never permanently withstand the impact of spiritual force.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

Everybody has a purpose.

It’s so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that’s what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

The first wealth is health.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

My model for business is The Beatles: They were four guys that kept each others‘ negative tendencies in check; they balanced each other. And the total was greater than the sum of the parts.