Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

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.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

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

Don’t throw stones at your neighbors if your own windows are glass.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

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

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

I am a little too absorbed by science to be able to philosophise much; but the more I look into myself, the more I find myself possessed by the conviction that it is only the science of Christ running through all things, that is to say true mystical science, that really matters. I let myself get caught up in the game when I geologise.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

It’s certainly not wrong to want to be a better person. God gave us that desire.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

It’s very hard to live with yourself if you don’t stick with your moral code.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

There is no gambling like politics.

It obviously bothers people when Real Madrid win. It makes them jealous. There isn’t a level playing field.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Returning to your family and where you came from, and your history… this is what makes you strong. It’s not looking out that’s going to do that – it’s looking in.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

We grow older, but we do not change. We become more sophisticated, but at bottom we continue to resemble our young selves, eager to listen to the next story and the next, and the next.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid; the state of being alone.

This is a moment that I deeply wish my parents could have lived to share. My father would have enjoyed what you have so generously said of me-and my mother would have believed it.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

I’ve never been a jealous person, and I’ve never felt built up by someone else’s failure – that’s a cheap thrill.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people, but I don’t regret having concerned myself with them because I think most of us are disturbed.

I think and that is all that I am.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.