Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dainty sum! One bird, one cage, one flight; one song in those far woods, as yet suspected by faith only!

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America’s really large shadow and that’s not all that bad.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Reproach is shame, blame, disgrace, disapproval and a disrespectful attitude toward yourself. When you’re under reproach, your behavior shows it.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

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

Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.

I’m much healthier now.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Don’t feel sorry for me.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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

I never expected to be anybody important.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

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

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Glory be and praise to God. I didn’t do any of this. God did. I don’t have a recipe or a blueprint. I prayed for it, and my prayers are continuing to be answered.

How sweet it is to learn the Savior’s love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a blessed thing it is to see that the Savior does not forsake us but still keeps us and holds us fast and clings to us and will not let us go!

Let not a libation of tears be the only offering at the shrine of Jesus; let us also rejoice with joy unspeakable. If we have need to lament our sin, how much more to rejoice at our pardon!

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Dogmas are collective conceptual prisons. And the strange thing is that people love their prison cells because they give them a sense of security and a false sense of ‚I know.‘ Nothing has inflicted more suffering on humanity than its dogmas.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

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

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

I love getting out of my comfort zone.

If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

I’m confident with my ability.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

By the time you get dressed, drive out there, play 18 holes and come home, you’ve blown seven hours. There are better things you can do with your time.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.