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

I always wanted a family.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

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.

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.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It’s a gift.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity – and I don’t mean simple – it’ll be good, and the public will know it.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

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

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

I always wanted to be a Vine star. I wasn’t, thank God.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ‚Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.‘

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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 art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I thank God I’m myself and for the life I’m given to live and for friends and lovers and beloveds, and I thank God for knowing that all those people have already paid for me.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.