Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

The worst men often give the best advice.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

My own view is that every company requires a long-term view.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I think money is a wonderful thing because it enables you to do things. It enables you to invest in ideas that don’t have a short-term payback.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

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

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

People talk to people who perceive nothing, who have open eyes and see nothing; they shall talk to them and receive no answer; they shall adore those who have ears and hear nothing; they shall burn lamps for those who do not see.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

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

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

So let’s be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way.