I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That’s what’s important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They’re keeping up with their friends and family, but they’re also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They’re connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It’s almost a disadvantage if you’re not on it now.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

Christmas morning, I’m going to open presents with my kids. I’m going to take pictures of them opening the presents. Then I’m going to come to the Staples Center and get ready to work.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

God’s dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

My parents were the same in the pulpit as they were at home. I think that’s where a lot of preachers‘ kids get off base sometimes. Because they don’t see the same things at both places.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Exercise is bunk. If you are healthy, you don’t need it: if you are sick you should not take it.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Here comes 40. I’m feeling my age and I’ve ordered the Ferrari. I’m going to get the whole mid-life crisis package.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

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

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I hid myself in food.

I don’t like celebrities; I don’t hang out with them; I don’t relate to that life.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

I’m filthy rich!

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

People have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

I feel like I’m the kind of guy that would have kids before getting married. The first thing would be kids.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

One thing that I tell people all the time is, ‚I’m not going to answer a call from you after nine o’clock at night or before nine o’clock in the morning unless it’s an emergency.‘

I don’t think the ebbs and flows – get in great shape and then get out of shape and then see if you can get back into shape – is a good thing. So I prefer to keep my arm always ready to go.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I’m in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn’t feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting.