You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

Good entrepreneurs are community builders, actively involved with their communities and dedicated to the community’s well being. If you’re dedicated to your community, it will be dedicated to you.

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.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Sometimes, you might meet somebody that you love that’s turning into a ‚they.‘ My key is invite them to Miami and take them to the ocean and let them jump off the boat in the ocean, on the sand bar, and cleanse off and pray and then go take a shower, and hopefully the ‚they‘ is out of you.

Around every corner, always protect the engine that powers you.

An overflow of good converts to bad.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Although I don’t have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

The world has crafted a beautiful balance of collective action – common but differentiated responsibility and respective capabilities.

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

While discipline and freedom seem like they sit on opposite sides of the spectrum, they are actually very connected.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

I have enjoyed great satisfaction from my climb of Everest and my trips to the poles. But there’s no doubt that my most worthwhile things have been the building of schools and medical clinics.

Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you allow in before it takes over?

I’m focusing on me. I’m focusing on my family’s security, my family’s financial security, so that’s all I can do.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Help others and give something back. I guarantee you will discover that while public service improves the lives and the world around you, its greatest reward is the enrichment and new meaning it will bring your own life.

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

The moment someone asks you to do something you don’t have the time or inclination to do is fraught with vulnerability.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

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.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

I don’t care if you get up in the morning and don’t wash, don’t put any make-up on, don’t do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

While you’re saving your face, you’re losing your ass.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

There is moderation even in excess.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

My mother always wanted to give back.

Over the holidays, and even during filming, I realized that I actually like my body, even if it’s not perfect according to the book. I just feel sexy. For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves. I just want to tone it up. My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.

We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church is clear, and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.