In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

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.

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

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you’re obsessed with yourself, and I’m not – you can become unhinged so easily.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I get very little sleep when the court is sitting.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

I admire people who destroy themselves.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

When I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.

Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one’s being added to that being.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I need one of those baby monitors from my subconscious to my consciousness so I can know what the hell I’m really thinking about.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Smiling makes me feel weak and not in control and not powerful and small.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I love a natural look in pictures.

Whenever you’re going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

Our brand of democracy is hard. But I can promise that a year from now, when I no longer hold this office, I’ll be right there with you as a citizen – inspired by those voices of fairness and vision, of grit and good humor and kindness that have helped America travel so far.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday.

To accuse others for one’s own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one’s education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one’s education is complete.

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

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.