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

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Well, I wouldn’t say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

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.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

Competition is a sin.

Prayer doesn’t just change things – it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

I want to appeal to everyone. Because I’m not saying I’m the best, but we the best.

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.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

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.

Over the years, I’ve learned that a confident person doesn’t concentrate or focus on their weaknesses – they maximize their strengths.

Get mad, then get over it.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

Character is power.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

To become ‚unique,‘ the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury.

Life well spent is long.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

I feel confident imposing change on myself. It’s a lot more fun progressing than looking back. That’s why I need to throw curve balls.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

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

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

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

What we think, we become.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.

I want to rethink ‚surrender‘ as an active verb.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.