Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don’t think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.

Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from the pack, it’s almost always due to personal growth.

It’s far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it’s certainly not easy.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

Smiles are the language of love.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I think that that’s the wisest thing – to prevent illness before we try to cure something.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

I’m not afraid to look bad on the screen.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

God made you a masterpiece – be blessed, secure, disciplined and equipped.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

The great epochs of our life are the occasions when we gain the courage to rebaptize our evil qualities as our best qualities.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

I give opinions, not advice.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I don’t want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Whenever you give up something, you must replace it with something.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

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