Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

You make more money if you’re generous.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Music is either sacred or secular. The sacred agrees with its dignity, and here has its greatest effect on life, an effect that remains the same through all ages and epochs. Secular music should be cheerful throughout.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

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.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

I had a much better view with the halo than I expected.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Wealth – any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

I do understand it’s not easy to run an I-league club. I have been part of many and I know the scene.

Because of my wrestling background, nothing a director can throw at me on a set can faze me.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.