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

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

The most pitiful among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold.

Gold is hoarded. It’s estimated that 95 percent of all gold ever mined is still around.

The dispersal of juniper seeds is effected by the plum and cherry plan of hiring birds at the cost of their board, and thus obtaining the use of a pair of extra good wings.

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Life well spent is long.

The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning, it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe.

You have to be very rich or very poor to live without a trade.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

I can barely walk, but it’s a privilege to be able to move at all.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having it.

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

The reason why I wear gold – I wear gold for three reasons. One, when Jesus was born, three wise men came from the east: one brought frankincense, one brought myrrh, the other one brought gold. The second reason I wear gold is I can afford it. The third reason I wear it, it’s symbolic of my African heritage.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

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

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

Pricey oil makes clear that wealth really is energy in various forms.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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

All the world lies warm in one heart, yet the Sierra seems to get more light than other mountains. The weather is mostly sunshine embellished with magnificent storms, and nearly everything shines from base to summit – the rocks, streams, lakes, glaciers, irised falls, and the forests of silver fir and silver pine.

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I’m grateful to intelligent people. That doesn’t mean educated. That doesn’t mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call ‚mother wit‘ means intelligence that you had in your mother’s womb. That’s what you rely on. You know what’s right to do.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

When I look back on my life as a whole, it is impossible for me not to feel blessed.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Nature is not human hearted.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

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.

Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.