Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Giving is better than receiving because giving starts the receiving process.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I do value the respect I get from my contemporaries, but to have Oasis cover my song, to have Puff Daddy cover a song, to have Goldie come along to my gigs – that’s where my ego is at. To have my fellow musicians like what I do, that’s very cool.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

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.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

You can think of the entire Internet as a place where ideas embodied in cyberspace are having a war, and it’s not much different than the war of gods in heaven, which has been taking place since there’s been human beings.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

When people get taken over by the ego to such an extent, there is nothing else in their mind except the ego. They can no longer feel or sense their humanity – what they share with other human beings, or even with other life forms on the planet. They are so identified with concepts in their minds that other human beings become concepts as well.

Everything’s intentional. It’s just filling in the dots.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Engage your brain before you engage your weapon.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

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.

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

A daily portion is really all we need. We do not need tomorrow’s supply, for that day has not yet dawned, and its needs are still unborn.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind useless.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody; for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

When you focus on how wonderful God is and all the great things He’s done… is doing… and even will do in your life, your natural response will be praise, adoration and awe. Don’t let yourself ever get used to it… stay amazed!

I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.