When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

I am not competing with anyone other than myself. I want to be excellent at whatever I do.

There were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again. And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries.

I’m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love – for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I’m grateful to know that it exists.

Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet.

Your life is much more important that you can imagine... it is your first treasure.