I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

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

Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor.

I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time – the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

I have a nice office. I have a nice house… So I’m not denying myself some great things. I just don’t happen to have expensive hobbies.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. ‚Good pride‘ represents our dignity and self-respect. ‚Bad pride‘ is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

The fact is that since you’re a divine creation who originated in the world of Spirit, you have exactly the right amount of smarts to accomplish all that you need and want to do while you’re here on earth. It’s all perfect… and so are you!

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.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

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

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Peace is its own reward.

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

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

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

You always want your people to be proud of what you have accomplished.

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

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

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

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

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

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

As long as I live, I will never forget that day 21 years ago when I raised my hand and took the oath of citizenship. Do you know how proud I was? I was so proud that I walked around with an American flag around my shoulders all day long.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

One of my proudest moments is I didn’t sell my soul for the sake of popularity.