Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

There are always people always asking you for something. But I feel like I have a foundation. I have a supporting cast where it doesn’t bother me too much.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

Sometimes it is better to light a flamethrower than curse the darkness.

I am two with nature.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

We think too much and feel too little.

You have to believe in your process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

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.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

I love to put on lotion. Sometimes I’ll watch TV and go into a lotion trance for an hour. I try to find brands that don’t taste bad in case anyone wants to taste me.

Forever is composed of nows.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

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

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

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man’s struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

That’s the biggest gift I can give anybody: ‚Wake up, be aware of who you are, what you’re doing and what you can do to prevent yourself from becoming ill.‘

From wonder into wonder existence opens.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.

Hatred is settled anger.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It’s good for them.

The probability of apocalypse soon cannot be realistically estimated, but it is surely too high for any sane person to contemplate with equanimity.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.