Each day provides its own gifts.

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

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

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.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

We should not fret for what is past, nor should we be anxious about the future; men of discernment deal only with the present moment.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

It’s so important to realize that every time you get upset, it drains your emotional energy. Losing your cool makes you tired. Getting angry a lot messes with your health.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

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

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

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

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I think sometimes the best training is to rest.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I’m a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

So many people are looking at what’s wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what’s right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

I look at myself like a show dog. I’ve got to keep her clipped and trimmed and in good shape.

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

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

Music is so therapeutic for me that if I can’t get it out, I start feeling bad about myself – a lot of self-loathing.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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

What’s coming will come and we’ll just have to meet it when it does.

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

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

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

Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence.

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.

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

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.