To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

If one has a good disposition, what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame, what is the value of other ornamentation?

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I sing and play the guitar, and I’m a walking, talking bacterial infection.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

No man can reveal to you nothing but that which already lies half-asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

He who is contented is rich.

I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it’s a very healthy discipline.

It’s very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Walking is man’s best medicine.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

I won’t have to do any major changes to continue my career a long way, hopefully. Just hopefully stay healthy and be able to help a team out as I go through and still play at a pretty high level.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

War settles nothing.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don’t think it’s intelligent, and it’s not sane. So why would you want to support it?

When I was 18, I went to the Soviet Union. I kept hearing that America was planning to bomb them – lots of bombs were going to come down on these people. I went there not knowing anything, except that I thought the whole thing was stupid and that I wanted to see who these people were that we were going to bomb.

There are certain characteristics that define a good chimp mother. She is patient, she is protective but she is not over-protective – that is really important. She is tolerant, but she can impose discipline. She is affectionate. She plays. And the most important of all: she is supportive.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

To secure peace is to prepare for war.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

An unjust peace is better than a just war.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.