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

I’m here as a product of process of evolution, which doesn’t make very many exceptions. And which rates life relatively cheaply.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there’s a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they’re not the same, ever again.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Absence and death are the same – only that in death there is no suffering.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Freedom is relative.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.

Everything isn’t political.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Giving is true having.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

To me, comedy is just twisting reality. It’s commenting or observing or twisting life.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

It is a common saying, and in everybody’s mouth, that life is but a sojourn.

If you would judge, understand.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

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

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‚why?‘ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‚why not?‘

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Each day provides its own gifts.

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

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.