‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

I’ve had two cancer bouts in my years on the Court, and the first one, Justice O’Connor told me, ‚Now, you do the chemotherapy on Friday because you’ll get over it during the weekend and you can be back in court on Monday.‘

There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

You might be tough, but you can only be so tough for so long, you know what I mean? The brain can only take so much damage. The body can only take so much damage.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don’t have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures.

Don’t tell your problems to people: eighty percent don’t care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

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

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

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

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

Fame is like caviar, you know – it’s good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn’t matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

I think it’s so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

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

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

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

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn’t know it had a name.

Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong. Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?

I love having an unlimited supply of cocoa butter.

I don’t care how busy I am – I will always make time for what’s most important to me.

My son has died of AIDS.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Who is richer? The man who is seen, but cannot see? Or the man who is not being seen, but can see?

Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I’ve seen on some of the songs that I’ve written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.