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.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

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.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me.

When thou art above measure angry, bethink thee how momentary is man’s life.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth.

Sin is geographical.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country’s cause.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

We live in ugly times.

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

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

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

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.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

The first wealth is health.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

I think the running game is very important to every offense. Being balanced is extremely important. There’s times where you have to throw the ball. You could be down late in the game, you need to come back; you have to be able to pass it when they know you’re passing it.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

We identify in our experience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

And later, if I ever felt that I was getting swept away by the craziness of being in a band, well, I’d go back to Virginia.

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

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

I grew up in a very nice house in Houston, went to private school all my life and I’ve never even been to the ‚hood. Not that there’s anything wrong with the ‚hood.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

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

An overflow of good converts to bad.