An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Some people mistakenly think nature is very nice and benevolent and never betrays.

Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

We all dream. We dream vividly, depending on our nature. Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

Nature is not human hearted.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

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

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Oh, this base heart of ours! Hath it not enough tinder in it to set on fire the course of nature? If a spark do but fall into it, any one of our members left to itself would dishonour Christ, deny the Lord that bought us, and turn back into perdition.

To keep oneself safe does not mean to bury oneself.

An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I got to Africa. I got the opportunity to go and learn, not about any animal, but chimpanzees. I was living in my dream world, the forest in Gombe National Park in Tanzania. It was Tanganyika when I began.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I really appreciate the moments that I was able to win rap album of the year or whatever.

Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

The environment is everything that isn’t me.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

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.

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

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

Giving is true having.

I’m crepuscular.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Nature has always had more force than education.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn’t know it then.

I don’t believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn’t say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It’s an ongoing process.

I don’t drink water, haven’t drank water in 40 years.

My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

I was fortunate and I was lucky that I had a couple of people in my life who cared about me. I had good, loving parents.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.