All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don’t understand.

My family was mostly unemployed working class.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Where thou art, that is home.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven’t done anything today.

My son has followed fashion since he was a punk. He and I agree that fashion is about sex.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

I don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot.

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.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

I like to be able to wear something that is appropriate for wherever the day takes me: to work, on a hike and then out to dinner. I like to take the formality out of the day’s schedule and be ready for any off-road detour.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

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

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

My father opened a restaurant. It’s so amazing… it’s so freaking delicious, but I’m telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.

My mother was Catholic, my father was Protestant. There was always a debate going on at home – I think in those days we called them arguments – about who was right and who was wrong.

I urge everyone to be trendsetters for Azza Suleiman. Let’s make it one fashion which everyone will want to follow.

God has already done everything He’s going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you’re going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn’t handle that business then there were no privileges.

Money can’t buy life.

Fashion fades, only style remains the same.

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.