What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference not only in your own life but in other people's lives.

These technologies can make life easier can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups get medical information the latest experimental drugs. These things can profoundly influence life. I'm not downplaying that.

Becoming a father I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much like you don't go on as many outings.

Being yourself is one of the hardest things because it's scary. You always wonder whether you'll be accepted for who you really are. I decided to call my record 'Inside Out' because that's my motto about life. I don't think you ever succeed at trying to be anyone else but who you truly are.

Develop an interest in life as you see it the people things literature music - the world is so rich simply throbbing with rich treasures beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

I have so much chaos in my life it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax calm down take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

We can always choose to perceive things differently. You can focus on what's wrong in your life or you can focus on what's right.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week I'll do something. If not I won't do a damn thing.

You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

To succeed in life you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price peace-at-any-price safety-first instead of duty-first the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Bad things do happen how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness immobilized by the gravity of my loss or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.

The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.

We need to give each other the space to grow to be ourselves to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas openness dignity joy healing and inclusion.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

Each day each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

I mean in some cases with libel laws you know they can write things about people who have no course of action because they can't afford to take legal action against them.

Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody whether it was a journalist the legal system or in that case of the political system who would say that was an example of when Washington worked best.