Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

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

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

The things I talk about and explain couldn’t happen – yet, they don’t seem impossible – you could say I talk about the world in an abstract perspective. But then, the world is basically insane – and it’s trying to pass itself off as being a sane place. I show it for what it is.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

My wife has about everything I can think of.

How much better it would be if all could be more aware of God’s providence and love and express that gratitude to Him.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

I’m proud to play for Real Madrid because I have fun; when you no longer have fun it’s a sign that it’s time to leave. For now though, I’m happy here at the greatest club in the world.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.

I stayed focused, and I never surrendered, and now I’ve been blessed. now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire whole family.

Optimism is a kind of heart stimulant – the digitalis of failure.

I believe if you keep your faith, you keep your trust, you keep the right attitude, if you’re grateful, you’ll see God open up new doors.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

The only thing you ever have is now.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don’t be concerned with dessert.

A man is but the product of his thoughts, what he thinks he becomes.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Optimism is the madness of insisting that all is well when we are miserable.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

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.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

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.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

When it comes to everybody else’s thing and their lane and their timing, I’m never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody’s biggest mistake if that’s their intention.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

My moms always told me, ‚How long you gonna play the victim?‘ I can say I’m mad and I hate everything, but nothing really changes until I change myself.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

I think that success is having fun.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can’t package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don’t think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.

I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart.