That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.

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.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

Women in particular need to keep an eye on their physical and mental health, because if we’re scurrying to and from appointments and errands, we don’t have a lot of time to take care of ourselves. We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Living indoors without fresh air quickly poisons the blood and makes people feel tired and seedy when they don’t know why. For myself, I sleep out of doors in winter as well as summer. I only feel tired or seedy when I have been indoors a lot. I only catch cold when I sleep in a room.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Mothers and daughters generally have fairly complex relationships, and ours was made much more so by Mother’s illness. She had Parkinson’s disease, which was not diagnosed for a long time… All that made me very self-protective, because for one thing, I didn’t want to get trapped.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I do the same exercises I did 50 years ago and they still work. I eat the same food I ate 50 years ago and it still works.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones – with ingratitude.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

Life is grim, and we don’t have to be grim all the time.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

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.

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.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

As we dread any disease that undermines the health of the body, so should we deplore contention, which is a corroding canker of the spirit.

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.

When your physical energy and mind combines, it’s great.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

All of our problems start in our minds.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Fill the earth with your songs of gratitude.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

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.

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston, I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song, and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, ‚Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.‘

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

I don’t carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.

I just owe almost everything to my father and it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.