Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

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

Little things affect little minds.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

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.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would require all one’s memories.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

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

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

I do believe in the old saying, ‚What does not kill you makes you stronger.‘ Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

I really miss being able to blend in with people.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I hated school. Even to this day, when I see a school bus it’s just depressing to me. The poor little kids.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I remember coming to New York in 1974 to do a play here called ‚Equis.‘ And I remember the first morning getting up and walking around the streets, and I thought, ‚I’m home.‘ I felt really at peace here.

You can’t do something forever.

I sometimes ask people, ‚Can you be aware of your own presence? Not the thoughts that you’re having, not the emotions that you’re having, but the very presence of your very being?‘ You become aware of your own presence by sensing the entire energy field in your body that is alive. And that is the totality of your presence.

The truth is lived, not taught.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

We were on for six years. We were in syndication for a while. It had its run. I still see the people from ‚Mr. Belvedere,‘ too. We stay in touch.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

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.

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few years later it became sort of serious-looking and a bit foreboding.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

What’s the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you’re going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them and even if you don’t agree with them.

We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

God has his plans and his reasons. Sometimes we are supposed to go through things so that we learn lessons.

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

I am two with nature.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam in the sink – boil it, put it in jars, and give it away as gifts.

A man’s interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.

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

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

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.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Each day provides its own gifts.

I never make conscious decisions.

Youth is wasted on the young.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.