Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

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.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

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

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

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

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

Big results require big ambitions.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I made an album I’m very proud of, and that’s about it.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

You can’t try to do things; you simply must do them.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

I always make my dreams into goals.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

I went to a lovely school, and I got an incredible education. And I actually think that my education is what really sets me apart, ‚cause I’m very smart.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

I cook, I create, I’m incredibly excited by what I do, I’ve still got a lot to achieve.

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.

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

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.

I don’t live for the accolades. I’m more so about the music. Making it, and putting it out. Those are the two best feelings.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

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

I don’t have many sad days.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

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

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.