We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one, each day brings a miracle of its own. It’s just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are – that is the fact.

The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

Don’t just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Being president isn’t anything like reality TV. It’s not about sending insulting tweets or making fiery speeches; it’s about whether or not the candidate can handle the awesome responsibility of leading this country.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

How should a man be capable of grooming his own horse, or of furbishing his own spear and helmet, if he allows himself to become unaccustomed to tending even his own person, which is his most treasured belonging?

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

When you’re writing a novel, you don’t want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that. Reality simply consists of different points of view.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: ‚Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path?‘ If you don’t ask those questions, your governance will not be good.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

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.

I’m a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I’m even afraid of it – it’s a learned affectation and it’s just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out.

I believe that God breathed life into every person and that every person is made in the image of God and you have accept them as they are, on their journey. I’m not here to preach hate or push people down.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We have more possibilities available in each moment than we realize.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

I’m very, very serious – I’m serious enough not to take myself too seriously. That means I can be completely wedded to the moment. But when I leave that moment, I want to be completely wedded to the next moment.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Sometimes, people can be extraordinarily judgmental and closed-minded to anyone different or special, which is why it’s so hard for young people in this day and age to be comfortable enough in their own skin to not listen to the people picking on them.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

When anyone has the power to destroy the whole human race in a matter of hours, it becomes a moral issue. The church must speak out.