What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

I can handle pain.

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Things do not change; we change.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow’s viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free – honorable alike in that we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

All of us are in the same place, each with our own rooms, and we were allowed to do whatever we wanted. Which is totally different than college, where they manage your schedule for you. In the NBA, you’re on your own.

Well, I don’t think there’s any need for people to focus on my career.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

I never woke up and thought, ‚I really want to live a bold life.‘

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Regarding life, the wisest men of all ages have judged alike: it is worthless.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

From my standpoint, being an artist, I want to see what the new construction is between artist and audience.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I’m never a reliable narrator, unbiased or objective.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

I always try to be smart. I try to treat all the money I’m making like it’s the last time I’m going to make it.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

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

There is little success where there is little laughter.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I tend to believe that audiences are relatively well-balanced people.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

To live is to find out for yourself what is true, and you can do this only when there is freedom, when there is continuous revolution inwardly, within yourself.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

What one fool can understand, another can.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he’s losing; nobody wants you to quit when you’re ahead.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.