He who is contented is rich.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and depth of tone, but never hustled.

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

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.

If you desire to be good, begin by believing that you are wicked.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

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.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

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

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Few people realize that luck is created.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

I couldn’t say I ever dreamt of becoming a composer, a pianist, or anything else for that matter. I have the kind of brain where nothing is set in stone.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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.

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

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

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

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

Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

If you’ve lost your spirit, even living in the richest country in the world can’t help you become rich.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

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

Never complain. Never explain.

God wants to bless us where we are.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It’s a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we’re telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

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.

People think that at the top there isn’t much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

As capitalism falters, the rich move their money out of the country, violence increases, and politicians promising prosperity are elected.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.