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

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

From the moment I open my eyes, I’m trying to free my body. I’m trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

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.

I don’t take showers at night, because I take a bath when I wake up. Then I go to bed on the most beautiful Egyptian-cotton antique sheets in the world.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

I’ve been really, really fortunate.

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.

Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.

I’m much healthier now.

Mind over mattress.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I can’t play bridge. I don’t play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn’t seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

How lucky Adam was. He knew when he said a good thing, nobody had said it before.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.

A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

It’s a blessing that South Africa has a man like Nelson Mandela.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

Delhi means everything to me. This city has given me everything, and I love it.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

Don’t ever forget two things I’m going to tell you. One, don’t believe everything that’s written about you. Two, don’t pick up too many checks.

Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

It’s crazy how fast you get out of shape if you miss a couple days of action.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

For me, being raised in a free America made all the difference.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

Touring is hard on the body.

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

Nature does nothing in vain.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

Anyone who’s looked into a newborn’s innocent eyes should realize how incredible it is to be blessed with a new life.

I want to lose weight because I want to be focused, meaning healthy.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that’s your body.

Life is precious.