Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

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

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone’s got to go sometime.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Mysterious love, uncertain treasure, hast thou more of pain or pleasure! Endless torments dwell about thee: Yet who would live, and live without thee!

Death, like birth, is a secret of Nature.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people’s opinions will rush in from all quarters.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

No one can possibly know what is about to happen: it is happening, each time, for the first time, for the only time.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

What we live by we die by.

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

Have you ever thought how humiliating and distressing it was to be placed upon a sphere? For friendship it is a boon never to be able to be further apart than the antipodes. But suppose that you are leaving together to go on and on; it is impossible. To go beyond a certain point is to return to where you began.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

I wouldn’t say that anyone in fashion is on my side. I don’t think there’s anyone on my side.

If you would judge, understand.

The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

You will always have partial points of view, and you’ll always have the story behind the story that hasn’t come out yet. And any form of journalism you’re involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.