Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

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.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

I think country music is popular – has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff about real people. And it’s simple enough for people to understand it. And we kind of roll with the punches.

Be Prepared… the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Don’t bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

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

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

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I don’t care about money.

I’m not looking for sympathy at all.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

It definitely has learning a lesson about the way you’re living your life. I wouldn’t compare our movie to that, but it has a structure where it’s about a man who doesn’t appreciate all that he has and finds out at the end that life has been great and he has to enjoy that.

When I was four, my mother insisted I get out of the car and find my own way home. Although I got lost, I did find my way home. It taught me the value of independence at an early age.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

My mother was a very natural woman. She never spoiled herself, never wore make-up, and wore modest jewellery, but she always had a few special items for when she wanted to feel like a lady. One of those special items – and I remember it because it seemed so elegant – was her Guerlain powder.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity.

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren’t very formalized when I was growing up, but I was taught certain things about what to do if I got lost in the woods.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

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

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

With fools, there is no companionship. Rather than to live with men who are selfish, vain, quarrelsome, and obstinate, let a man walk alone.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Be content to seem what you really are.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

You can be happy where you are.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

The people you choose to have around you make all the difference. My family and close friends keep me grounded. You have to have a mind of your own and a strong head on your shoulders. Cricket is the most important thing to me, so the rest of it pales in comparison.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.

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

It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.