Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

I want to thank my Eritrean fans for feeling connected to me and for supporting me. I feel extremely grateful.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

When I wake up, I expect things to be good. If they’re not, then I try to set about trying to make them as good as I can ‚cause I know I’m gonna have to live that day anyway. So why not try to make the most of it if you can? Some days, they pan out a little better than others, but you still gotta always just try.

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

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

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

I can handle pain.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

I believe in the Golden Rule – The Man with the Gold… Rules.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

He that will enjoy the brightness of sunshine, must quit the coolness of the shade.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn’t have it and thought of other things if you did.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

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.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I’m half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don’t know and I don’t care.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.