Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

I’ve been very fortunate.

People don’t want drama 365 days a year. I’m a sense of relief; it’s my job to take your mind off what’s bad for that brief second you’re in the room with me, regardless of shape, race, colour or anything. It brings people together, and it makes me feel good about what I’m doing.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

I’m tough when I have to be, tender when I should be. When you find a really tough guy, he’s not a predator. He doesn’t have to prove himself. Guys who have to pretend to be tough, they ain’t. I’m tough.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart.

I was inspired to spend an entire year – my 65th year – reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu’s messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

However great may be the work for which we are responsible, we will always do well if we pause to spend time in sacred praise.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

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

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

We were poor, but we smiled.

I’ve tried everything. I’ve done therapy, I’ve done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.

That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don’t fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Man’s nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

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

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.

I was a fighting machine with a will of iron.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.