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

Other beautiful quotes for you

• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

• We are the result of changes in our brain throughout life.

• Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

• All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.

• The Euro and the Lira have taught us that 1 can be worth almost 2,000. Find those who value you more, don’t settle for being worth little to someone.

• You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

• Many of the things that we have been told since childhood are the right things, things to do, are only valid in a tiny part of the world.

• Appreciate those who dedicate their time to you and push away time wasters.

• We should all be songwriters of life, not just singers.

• The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.