He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood.

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

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

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

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

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.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

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

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Peace begins with a smile.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Men want to make women happy.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

Israelis would mostly breathe a sigh of relief if Palestinians were to disappear.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

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

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Be content to seem what you really are.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

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.