Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Smiles are the language of love.

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Where thou art, that is home.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

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

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

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.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Simplify, simplify.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Don’t wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you’ve got to make yourself.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

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

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.