When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

Being elected to Congress, though I am very grateful to our friends for having done it, has not pleased me as much as I expected.

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.

Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

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?

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.

We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

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

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Writing is like anything else – the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you’ll be about what’s going to happen to it, where it’s going, what it sounds like, whether it’s right.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

I try not to think about anything special while running. As a matter of fact, I usually run with my mind empty. However, when I run empty-minded, something naturally and abruptly crawls in sometime. That might become an idea that can help me with my writing.

We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

I’m always pushing for human responsibility. Given that chimpanzees and many other animals are sentient and sapient, then we should treat them with respect.

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?

Nothing is worth more than this day.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

To the man who reads ‚Scouting for Boys‘ superficially, there is a disappointing lack of religion in the book. But to him who tries it in practice, the basic religion underlying it soon becomes apparent.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

To appreciate the noble is a gain which can never be torn from us.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

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

There are as many pillows of illusion as flakes in a snow-storm. We wake from one dream into another dream.

My mother made me truly appreciate women.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

There’s one advantage in having been around as long as I have. Everybody in the Senate knows me, and – I’m going to say something presumptuous, to repeat myself – I think most respect me.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

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.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘