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.‘

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

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.

The reason we want to go on and on is because we live in an impoverished present.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Arrange whatever pieces come your way.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Fun is good.

Never take anything for granted.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

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.

I don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

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

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.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

My life is mine to remember.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

I make such big efforts to forget things and I can’t tell the story of my life because, thank God, I’m still living it.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Whatever role I play is a positive role; it’s a strong role. Never negative.

Soldiers, I had lately like to have been taken from you by the attempt of a few desperate men, but by the grace and providence of the gods, I am still preserved.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there’s nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

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.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

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

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

I had a rough childhood coming up, and I just took all that negative energy and made it very positive for myself to drive me. I’m a very driven person. I have passion that almost scares people, just to be successful and make it no matter what.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

What it’s like to be me? You know, it’s good to be me. My life is good.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I wouldn’t ever say if you’re having tough times then there must be something wrong with you or your attitude. Life’s a fight. It’s a good fight of faith. I encourage people to stay up, stay hopeful, stay faith-filled.

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

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I think the discipline comes with turning that cellphone and Blackberry off and unplugging completely. You do that and you go through some withdrawals in the beginning. You start thinking, ‚Oh, do I need to do this? Do I need to do that?‘ You forget that we were doing just fine with the payphone.

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

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.