The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

The pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man… It is more powerful than external circumstances.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

Why are our days numbered and not, say, lettered?

We should not say that one man’s hour is worth another man’s hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time’s carcass.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Every day, the people I meet inspire me… every day, they make me proud… every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

As I’ve said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis‘ future.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn’t really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: he wasn’t going to compose Beethoven’s Fifth.

People who think too much before they act don’t act too much.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

Where there is love there is life.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

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

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

The best augury of a man’s success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

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

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

To add value to others, one must first value others.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Life is wasted on the living.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

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

There’s a difference in thinking you are a champion and knowing that you are.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

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.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

I think Bible principles are principles for life.

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.