My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe.

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.

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.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Man, wear your seat belts. That’s all I can tell everybody. You never know.

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

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

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

I know why we’re strong. I know why we have held together; I know why we are united: it’s because there’s always been a growing middle class.

We love things we love what they are.

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

It is often safer to be in chains than to be free.

The fame isn’t important to me. It’s a blessing to have. Having so many people that support me, that love me and listen to my music, is beautiful.

If something’s important enough, you should try. Even if – the probable outcome is failure.

Still and all, why bother? Here’s my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

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.

Listening has importance only when one is not projecting one’s own desires through which one listens.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

We could definitely make a flying car – but that’s not the hard part. The hard part is, how do you make a flying car that’s super safe and quiet? Because if it’s a howler, you’re going to make people very unhappy.

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

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

I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

I love to sit and eat quietly and enjoy each bite, aware of the presence of my community, aware of all the hard and loving work that has gone into my food.

Nutrition is so important. It can’t be stressed enough.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Precaution is better than cure.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

I think that is a better thing than thanksgiving: thanks-living. How is this to be done? By a general cheerfulness of manner, by an obedience to the command of Him by whose mercy we live, by a perpetual, constant delighting of ourselves in the Lord, and by a submission of our desires to His will.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

There is always safety in valor.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don’t attack each other. Free nations don’t develop weapons of mass destruction.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Why is it so hard for people to believe that white people are poor?! I wouldn’t say I lived in a ghetto; I’d say I lived in the ‚hood. The same friends I had back then are the same people on tour with me now.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.