He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Especially for those of us who lived in single cells, you had the time to sit down and think, and we discovered that sitting down just to think is one of the best ways of keeping yourself fresh and able, to be able to address the problems facing you, and you had the opportunity, also, of examining your past.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn’t a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

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

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, ‚What are we going to do?‘ but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that’s nothing.

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

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.

Forever is composed of nows.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.

And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

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.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

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.

Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime. I’ve came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

All parents are concerned about their children’s well-being. As a parent of three kids, I’m very concerned about their well-being.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

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

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

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

Beware the hobby that eats.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.