It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361)

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility. (17)

Sometimes you’ll hear, ‘People don’t change.’ This is true more often than it ought to be, but listen again: ‘People don’t change.’ It says ‘don’t, ’ not ‘can’t.’ (316)

You'll get younger not from what you read but from what you apply in your life. (192)

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

When you can see your life in retrospect, the romanticism of how good things once were gives way to the reality that positives and negatives comprise every day and every decade. (235)

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

When you believe you reflect what is holy and good, you can see more that is good in every stage of your life. (319)

Life has its rhythm ad we have ours. They’re designed to coexist in harmony, so that when we do what is ours to do and otherwise let life be, we garner acceptance and serenity. (285)

Just because you’re grown up and then some doesn’t mean settling into the doldrums of predictability. Surprise people. Surprise yourself. (281)

A twenty-three-year-long study in Ohio determined that people who saw growing older as something positive lived a whopping seven and a half years longer than those who didn’t. (356)

Congress has mandated an annual report on street gang, outlaw biker, and domestic extremist activity in the military since 2008.

If I had been at an assembly line for films, I don't know if I would be the best driver. I think I would have crashed the car.

Content if hence th' unlearn'd their wants may view, The learn'd reflect on what before they knew.

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

[Being a coach] is totally different, but I have a new level of respect for coaching that I didn't as a player. So much is expected of you and from your team. Everything falls on your shoulders.

Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.

Default is not in our stars, but in ourselves.

I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.

Tis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.