Nothing is worth more than this day.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

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.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget – to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

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

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.

Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions, not your words.

I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you – when life opens that door for you, I should say – I think it’s important to be giving, to return the love back.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

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

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right person, or suddenly your health improves, or suddenly you’re able to pay off your house. That’s God shifting things in your favor.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

Thoughts are fine when you don’t confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

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.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

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.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going into a shop and buying a newspaper, speaking or choosing to remain silent. The simple act of being able to control one’s person.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Don’t be a spectator, don’t let life pass you by.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

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.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

There is such a thing as ‚thanks-feeling‘ – feeling thankful. This ought to be the general, universal spirit of the Christian.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

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.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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 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.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.

For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.

No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.