As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they’ve taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by the body.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I’m addicted to placebos.

Resist the need to be ‚right‘ all the time or to always have the last word.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

You have to make sure you know why you are going to war and then use decisive force to end it as soon as possible.

If I couldn’t laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn’t laugh we just would go insane, If we weren’t all crazy we would go insane.

Foe means enemy. Now, will we have differences of opinion with the Russians? Yes. Will they get mad at us from time to time, and we get mad at them? That’s part of the normal diplomatic relations.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

I want to be relaxed in my personal life. I really don’t like to be hassled.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.

I don’t feel bitterness, I don’t feel anger towards anybody. Fighting is never emotional to me.

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

What keeps me up at night? Anxiety. Anxiety, the inability to go to sleep, it’s quite literally that.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

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

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

If anyone thinks they’d rather be in a different part of history, they’re probably not a very good student of history. Life sucked in the old days. People knew very little, and you were likely to die at a young age of some horrible disease. You’d probably have no teeth by now. It would be particularly awful if you were a woman.

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.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

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

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

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.

Contention does not usually begin as strife between countries. More often, it starts with an individual, for we can contend within ourselves over simple matters of right and wrong. From there, contention can infect neighbors and nations like a spreading sore.

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

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.

You beat him verbally. You beat him mentally, and then finally, you beat him physically. That’s the three ways to beat a man.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.