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

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

I would be stupid not to be on my own side. But I’m a human being, too. And I’m on the side of human beings, rather than on the side of crocodiles.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

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

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn’t the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

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.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

This Sunday School has been of help to me, greater perhaps than any other force in my Christian life, and I can ask no better things for you than that you, and all that shall come after you in this great band of workers for Christ, shall receive the same measure of blessedness which I have been permitted to have.

I always have confidence, whether I miss four in a row or make four in a row, that the next one’s going in. To a coach, sometimes that might not make sense.

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

When I’m a director, I look at myself the actor as a completely different person. It’s somebody else up there, an actor playing a role. I keep myself out of it.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

Freedom is relative.

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.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

It could be – and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don’t like it – that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

Yeah, it’s pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

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

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

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.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

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

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

It’s a philosophy of life. A practice. If you do this, something will change, what will change is that you will change, your life will change, and if you can change you, you can perhaps change the world.

Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

When fate hands you a lemon, make lemonade.