The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.

The making of the far-famed New York Central Park was opposed by even good men, with misguided pluck, perseverance, and ingenuity, but straight right won its way, and now that park is appreciated. So we confidently believe it will be with our great national parks and forest reservations.

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

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

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

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

O God, we praise Thee for keeping us till this day, and for the full assurance that Thou wilt never let us go.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Leave all the afternoon for exercise and recreation, which are as necessary as reading. I will rather say more necessary because health is worth more than learning.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

I’m not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don’t like L.A., but I’m just a Northern California guy.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

I like to take it easy.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look – for dizzier heights.

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.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

I wasn’t sure of the exact mindset you should have when you go into a Test match. So I probably became too defensive when I played my first Test match. Short balls in one-day cricket, I have never thought of just defending.

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.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.

Chaos is a friend of mine.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

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.

Not only is there but one way of doing things rightly, but there is only one way of seeing them, and that is, seeing the whole of them.

It was a strike against me that I didn’t wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.