No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

I don’t believe we are supposed to go through life defeated and not having enough money to pay our bills or send our kids to college.

Being willing to donate the taxpayers‘ money is not the same as being willing to put your own money where your mouth is.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.

I don’t have many sad days.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit cards. Emma Bovary would have maxed hers out. No question. Mr. Scrooge would not have. He would have snipped his up.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

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.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Value is what you get.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

On the summit of Everest, I had a feeling of great satisfaction to be first there.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Rich countries can afford to overpay for things.

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

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Money won’t create success, the freedom to make it will.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.