Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

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

For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.

I was not a good student. I did not spend much time at college; I was too busy enjoying myself.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

You have to be smart. The easy days are over.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

Life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

On a given day, a given circumstance, you think you have a limit.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.

I don’t have many sad days.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

I suppose for a very long time I’ve been trying to understand how it is that people might make sense out of their lives and make meaning and make their lives meaningful in the face of the trouble that life brings.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

These days, children can text on their cell phone all night long, and no one else is seeing that phone. You don’t know who is calling that child.

The self is hateful.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

I’ve worked with children all my life.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

If I walked into the kitchen without washing my hands as a kid, I’d hear a loud ‚A-hem!‘ from my mother or grandmother. Now I count on other people to do the same.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

When I cook for my family on Christmas, I make feijoada, a South American dish of roasted and smoked meats like ham, pork, beef, lamb, and bacon – all served with black beans and rice. It’s festive but different.

I don’t know who I would have been if I never watched MotoGP.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

You can’t go backward in life.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

Family home evening is more for the purpose of teaching values and gospel principles, displaying talents and enjoying different kinds of family fun and activities.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Football is all about fans.

I’m not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.