When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

I’m healthy as can be – not an ache or a pain. A lot of my prayer is thanking the Lord that I am healthy. I pray for long life and good health.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space where we choose our response.

‚Thank you‘ is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

Next to God we are nothing. To God we are Everything.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

My life is the road, man. I need to keep moving.

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee.

Conscious of not being able to separate myself from my time, I have decided to become part of it.

Each morning when I awake, I experience again a supreme pleasure – that of being Salvador Dali.

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

We’ve fallen into a trap of ever-widening orbits of contact, and there is a total disregard for the present moment.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Life is short, the art long.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

I want to thank The Beatles for almost single-handedly getting me out of writer’s block.

Meditation is not following any system; it is not constant repetition and imitation. Meditation is not concentration.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

By having a reverence for life, we enter into a spiritual relation with the world By practicing reverence for life we become good, deep, and alive.

I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

There are many things that happen every day that we could murmur about if we let ourselves go there. But they really aren’t worth the effort it takes to get upset and gripe about it.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

This is love: the flowering of love is meditation.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.