Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

Violence, even well intentioned, always rebounds upon oneself.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

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

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn’t enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

All you need to do to be my friend is like me.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I love diversity.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

I don’t think I’ve ever felt that same kind of peace, the kind of serenity that I felt after acknowledging that maybe I was going to die of this TB.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

I made bad decisions. I’m not denying that I made bad decisions.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

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

We’re all just a bunch of sinners, but we do the best we can.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

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

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

You’re going to die. You’re going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we’re just going to be gone. The world’s going to go on without us. All right now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself you decide for yourself.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

Would that I were a dry well, and that the people tossed stones into me, for that would be easier than to be a spring of flowing water that the thirsty pass by, and from which they avoid drinking.

I think I have to trust that you end up with the person you’re supposed to end up with, and that everything in between is there to teach you stuff.

It’s absolutely normal that different human beings want to go different ways.

A lot of times, I run a thought experiment: ‚If I were not at Facebook, what would I be doing to make the world more open?‘