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.

You can’t put your feet on the ground until you’ve touched the sky.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

We have all had the experience of finding that our reactions and perhaps even our deeds have denied beliefs we thought were ours.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

I’m not a regrets-type person.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

I can express myself.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

Knowledge of the self is the mother of all knowledge. So it is incumbent on me to know my self, to know it completely, to know its minutiae, its characteristics, its subtleties, and its very atoms.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

If I am a cup maker, I’m interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

Until we’re educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

I like to work.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

I am a part of everything that I have read.

I was very blessed to have family and friends, but particularly family, who told me I was not only all right, I was just right, so I believe that my brain is a good one, and it’s lasting me very well.

I’ve had mixtapes that have been better than albums I’ve heard from other artists. I take my time; I put my heart into it.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

Let us endeavor so to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

I’m over being a pop star. I don’t wanna be a hot girl. I wanna be iconic. And I feel like I’ve accomplished a lot. I feel like I’m highly respected, which is more important than any award or any amount of records. And I feel like there comes a point when being a pop star is not enough.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

Whether I’m running on the beach without my shirt or whether I’m going out with my kids or going to church or going out to dinner – I don’t choose to insulate myself in engaging in real life. Hence, the public kind of almost knows me as much through my real life that they see through the rag mags.

Forget the past.

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The ‚Billionaire‘ song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It’s funny.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.

I made my fair share of mistakes.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It’s rage, it’s creativity, it’s pain, it’s hurt, but it’s the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

I was not an anthropology student prior to the war. I took it up as part of a personal readjustment following some bewildering experiences as an infantryman and later as a prisoner of war in Dresden, Germany. The science of the Study of Man has been extremely satisfactory from that personal standpoint.

It’s better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

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

One thing they never tell you about child raising is that for the rest of your life, at the drop of a hat, you are expected to know your child’s name and how old he or she is.