I am confident that nobody… will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

I like to feel blonde all over.

Vanity is the healthiest thing in life.

If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.

Ain’t nothing like a good cry.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

All that the future holds in store for each sacred child of God will be shaped by his or her parents, family, friends, and teachers. Thus, our faith now becomes part of our posterity’s faith later.

If you can’t sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It’s the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.

The writer’s greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I’m in a rare position where I don’t have to do job after job. I can take time when my family needs it.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Friends applaud, the comedy is over.

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The boys know they’re from Southeast Asia, and they have their food and their music and their friends, and they have a pride particular to them.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don’t retire before I go senile, then I’ll do more damage than good at that point.

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

You know, my family and friends have never been yes-men: ‚Yes, you’re doing the right thing, you’re always right.‘ No, they tell me when I’m wrong, and that’s why I’ve been able to stay who I am and stay humble.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

I was always making my friends laugh, but I never wanted the attention of the whole classroom.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you’ll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

I don’t need therapy. I’m not going to see a therapist; comedy acts as my therapy. I put my problems out there. I talk about them. I talk about everything before anybody has a chance.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.