I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

I myself have been on my own and utterly independent since I graduated. I haven’t belonged to any company or any system. It isn’t easy to live like this in Japan.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

For greed all nature is too little.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

I like my fair share of board games.

Actually, I hear a lot of rock music. My husband is a big rock fan.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

I feel 80% of my life is completely normal.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

I like to take it easy.

Traditions are a common part of our lives. They can be good, and not all traditions are wrong, but sometimes they can take the joy out of life.

If McLaren give me a car, that’s fine, but I don’t tend to buy fancy stuff anyway or super-nice clothes.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

You have freedom when you’re easy in your harness.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I’ll never feel comfortable taking a strong drink, and I’ll never feel easy smoking a cigarette. I just don’t think those things are right for me.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

Things in themselves have no life in them. A car can’t comfort or encourage you. A house means nothing if there’s no life and love inside.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

I don’t profess to have music as my big wheel and there are a number of other things as important to me apart from music. Theatre and mime, for instance.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay.

I love music, and after my first experience with movies, I can’t wait to do more.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

What consumerism really is, at its worst is getting people to buy things that don’t actually improve their lives.

You can be passionate about anything.

I have a mind to join a club and beat you over the head with it.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

I don’t race cars.

I know a lot of people who wouldn’t be comfortable with everything that comes with being in a band as big as Nirvana. The thing that I don’t understand is not appreciating that simple gift of being able to play music.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.