If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The soul is healed by being with children.

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.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

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

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

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

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

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

As a young kid, I really wanted to be rich.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

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

Of course, I do everything for money.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

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

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

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

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.