Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

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

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

People have been fed this diet of pabulum, rights, and impulsive freedom. There’s just an absolute starvation for the other side of the story.

Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

So long as I’m Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you’ve served us – because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

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’d like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

When you take your attention into the present moment, a certain alertness arises. You become more conscious of what’s around you, but also, strangely, a sense of presence that is both within and without.

The man who knows it can’t be done counts the risk, not the reward.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Kissing someone is pretty intimate, actually very intimate, and your heart always kind of skips a beat before you do that.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

We humans are self-absorbed by nature, and spend most of our time focusing inwardly on our emotions, on our wounds, on our fantasies.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

I can never say ‚why‘ about anything I do. I suppose I can say ‚how‘ and ‚when‘ and ‚what.‘ But ‚why‘ is impenetrable to me.

Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive – that you can touch the miracle of being alive – then that is a kind of enlightenment.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don’t think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you’ve done up to now.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Poverty breeds despair. We know this. Despair breeds violence. We know this. In turbulent times, isn’t it cheaper, and smarter, to make friends out of potential enemies than to defend yourself against them later?

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

I don’t look at myself as a commodity, but I’m sure a lot of people have.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

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

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.

I’m one of the world’s most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle.

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.