I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

I feel like the way I was raised was to be able to see through all the titles in this world – from religion to race.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

This isn’t life in the fast lane, it’s life in the oncoming traffic.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

I was not raised with wealth or resources or any social standing to speak of.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

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

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

I don’t think anything about a personal legacy. I mean, those words would never come out of my mouth unless I just repeated them. Those things have never been important to me.

Only stupid people are changed by success.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Consider, when you are enraged at any one, what you would probably think if he should die during the dispute.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth.

Success comes to those who have an entire mountain of gold that they continually mine, not those who find one nugget and try to live on it for fifty years.

The question is not, ‚Do you have a problem?‘ The question is, ‚Does the problem have you?‘

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th‘ observer’s sake.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

I never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.