There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I’m a realist.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

For whatever trauma came with service in tough circumstances, we should take what we learned – take our post-traumatic growth – and, like past generations coming home, bring our sharpened strengths to bear, bring our attitude of gratitude to bear.

Life must be lived as play.

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

I thank Marc Jacobs so much for giving me the opportunity to design a shoe for Louis Vuitton, but the thing that broke my heart most was when they said, ‚You’re finished. The shoe’s finished.‘

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

It’s flattering to people who stop you and say that you’ve helped them and all. But, again, you know, you’ve got to stay humble because as quick as you came up, you can come down.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

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

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

I confused things with their names: that is belief.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

Oh, hour of forgiven sin, moment of perfect pardon, our soul shall never forget you while, within you, life and being find immortality!

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Indeed, the Lord has not forgotten! He has blessed us and others throughout the world with the Book of Mormon.

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

If you’re doing a biography, you try to stay as accurate as possible to reality. But you really don’t know what was going on in the person’s mind. You just know what was going on in the minds of people around him.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.

There is no love of life without despair of life.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

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.

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn’t have anything. It’s influenced the way I look at the world.

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

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

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 war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I’m really looking forward to seeing what life brings to me.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can’t be wrong whose life is in the right.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Once you fully apprehend the vacuity of a life without struggle, you are equipped with the basic means of salvation.

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.