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

Sometimes, I want to talk on a song and be angry, because I am angry. Then there’s always a part of me that remembers that this record lives past my being angry, and so do I really want to be angry about that? Is that feeling going to have longevity?

I’ve been blessed with talents to play this game and been put on a stage to impact a lot of people. I don’t want to take that for granted.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

I respect Soulja Boy.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

The more you practice, the better you get, the more freedom you have to create.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

I think the most important thing is to keep active and to hope that your mind stays active.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.

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

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.

I don’t think you should spend your life praying for things, but I do believe you should thank God for what He’s given you… but I think the scripture teaches us that we can pray for our dreams, pray for the big things… he’s not a small God; this God is incredible.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Breathe in deeply to bring your mind home to your body. Then look at, or think of, the person triggering this emotion: With mindfulness, you can see that she is unhappy, that she is suffering. You can see her wrong perceptions. You can see that she is not beautiful when she says things that are unkind.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Whether we’re happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

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.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do – take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we’ve become incredibly adept technically. We’ve treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

I like to let things breathe.

Little things affect little minds.

I wouldn’t be here today if it were not for the NHS. I have received a large amount of high-quality treatment without which I would not have survived.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

The power of our thoughts may never be measured or appreciated, but it became obvious to me as a young boy that there was value and power in being aware of my thoughts and how I expressed myself.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.

At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally was as a child growing up way in the country, rarely seeing people. I was in that state of oneness with creation and it was as if I didn’t exist except as a part of everything.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

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.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

I am two with nature.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.