I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

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.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

I just think it’s so important not to take yourself too seriously.

I need to keep working on myself for a while.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.

My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

‚Love Story‘ is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn’t like him. All of them!

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I’m tender on the inside.

When I write, I can shake off all my cares.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man’s own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

In Europe first and now in America, elected men have taken it upon themselves to indebt their people to create an atmosphere of dependency. And why? For their own selfish need to increase their own personal power.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

I’m good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O’Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

A sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

I got my own back.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.