The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

What I enjoy most is doing something I’ve never done before.

I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Meditation is a state of mind which looks at everything with complete attention, totally, not just parts of it. And no one can teach you how to be attentive. If any system teaches you how to be attentive, then you are attentive to the system, and that is not attention.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

We go on in our pleasures thinking they’re going to last forever.

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.‘

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, ‚I’m not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.‘ Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, ‚Yes, I deserve it.‘

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

My weaknesses have always been food and men – in that order.

I’m just trying to be myself. I’m not trying to be anyone else.

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

I’ve been reckless, but I’m not a rebel without a cause.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

A man must now swallow more belief than he can digest.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

Your entire life only happens in this moment. The present moment is life itself. Yet, people live as if the opposite were true and treat the present moment as a stepping stone to the next moment – a means to an end.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

I’m trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It’s so easy to get turned.

Because I am a mother, I am capable of being shocked: as I never was when I was not one.

I hate to be smart.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

When I look back over my life it’s almost as if there was a plan laid out for me – from the little girl who was so passionate about animals who longed to go to Africa and whose family couldn’t afford to put her through college. Everyone laughed at my dreams. I was supposed to be a secretary in Bournemouth.

To be ashamed of one’s immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one’s morality.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

The dreams and passions stored within hearts are powerful keys which can unlock a wealth of potential.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it’s not like I am hopeless.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Forty is when you actually begin even deserving to be on stage telling people what you think.

One ought to hold on to one’s heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

Be not a slave of words.