Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I’d invented it, because it is very true.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

You will find as you grow older that courage is the rarest of all qualities to be found in public life.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; if not, by any means get wealth and place.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

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

If I had to describe myself to an alien I’d say I was bigger than the average human, enjoy a drink or two with a good meal and have a bigger head than most. I’d also say I’m really handsome – especially if they were a female alien.

I always wanted a family.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

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.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know – and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

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

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

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

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Life well spent is long.

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

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

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

All the learnin‘ my father paid for was a bit o‘ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

What I like to drink most is wine that belongs to others.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

We should no longer measure our wealth and success in the graph that shows economic growth, but in the curve that shows the emissions of greenhouse gases.