Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Freedom is what everyone wants – to be able to act and live with freedom. But the only way to get to a place of freedom is through discipline.

I’ve always believed that you can think positive just as well as you can think negative.

The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.

I like being able to be on the inside of music, rather than on the outside listening to it.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can’t be done.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.

If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

All cruelty springs from weakness.

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

I think everybody deserves an equal amount of appreciation whether how old they are, but I mean, I’m cool with the praise. I’m good.

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

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

I think it’s very important to cry in the shower and not in front of them. They need to know that everything’s going to be all right, even when you’re not sure it is.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

Technology is nothing. What’s important is that you have a faith in people, that they’re basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they’ll do wonderful things with them.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.

Our intention creates our reality.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

I can live for two months on a good compliment.

We need to do a better job of putting ourselves higher on our own ‚to do‘ list.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.