Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest.

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.

Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what you’re doing.

The life you have left is a gift. Cherish it. Enjoy it now, to the fullest. Do what matters, now.

At the end of the day, the questions we ask of ourselves determine the type of people that we will become.

The point of simple living, for me has got to be:A soft place to landA wide margin of errorRoom to breatheLots of places to find baseline happiness in each and every day

Stop waiting for the right person to come into your life. Be the right person to come to someone’s life

Adding little amounts over time makes a huge difference

I didn't say I can change the whole world with all it entirety alone. But I can strike on a lot of things and cause a rift, and bring so many things together.

Write out of love. Your piece will finish itself.

At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never been in combat, because everyone cries sooner or later. Everyone cries.

Music is a thing that changes people's lives. It has the capacity to make young people's lives better.

There is a clear intent to keep Christian thinking out of the mainstream of the media and the nation's political life.

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

There is something strangely determinate and fatal about a single shot in the night. It is as if someone had cried a message to you in one word, and would not repeat it.

Oh, New Orleans is such freedom.

In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.

I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.