A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

I let the American people down.

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you’re aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

The self is hateful.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

We are dying from overthinking. We are slowly killing ourselves by thinking about everything. Think. Think. Think. You can never trust the human mind anyway. It’s a death trap.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one’s hopes in a pile of broken crockery.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to failure.

A fool is wise in his eyes.

Playing Etta James in the movie ‚Cadillac Records‘ really changed me. It was a darker character, and I realized that if anything is too comfortable, I want to run from it. It’s no fun being safe.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Information is not knowledge.

Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

I think that I’m perfect.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Today I love myself as I love my god: who could charge me with a sin today? I know only sins against my god; but who knows my god?

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

In search of my mother’s garden, I found my own.

I am an Addictive Personality, they say, a natural slave to passion – and many Doctors have warned me against it. I am a High-risk Patient.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment; it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

I feel like people can relate to me because we all go through wins and roadblocks and passion and pain, and it’s a vibe.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry his own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

Money does not change people, people change.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.