If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

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

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that’s you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don’t really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

The only thing is, people have to develop courage. It is most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtues consistently.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as 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.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

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.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

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

Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.

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.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

I’ve never responded well to entrenched negative thinking.

To create something you must be something.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

A man’s character is his fate.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I just want to be just as everyone else. I want to educate myself and be just like a normal teenager.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.