When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

Our intention creates our reality.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

We are what we believe we are.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

The idea is to try to give all the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

You are the universe, you aren’t in the universe.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

There is but an inch of difference between a cushioned chamber and a padded cell.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

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.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

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

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

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.

Integrity has no need of rules.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Places I’ve lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it’s roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

Freedom is relative.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it’s like we don’t even exist.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

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

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.