If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

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

Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.

Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.

When I’m writing, I don’t feel neurotic. So it’s better for the family if I’m working.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

I have no time to think about other writers. I am too busy with my own problems.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Just on a practical side, if you wake up early in the morning – like at 4:30 in the morning – you’re going to have some free time to yourself to make things happen, to take care of things that are important to you.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane.

Whenever I make music, it reflects where I’m at mentally.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Never neglect details. When everyone’s mind is dulled or distracted the leader must be doubly vigilant.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

If I relaxed, if I took my foot off the gas, I would probably die.

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

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

The true art of memory is the art of attention.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

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

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

You can’t keep your mind on fighting when you’re thinking about a woman. You can’t keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

Well, I’m working all the time to stay out of trouble!

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

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

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Give yourself more opportunities for privacy, when you are not bombarded with duties and obligations. Privacy is not a rejection of those you love; it is your deserved respite for recharging your batteries.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

If you want to be more productive, then start at the start: get there on time. Whether it is a meeting, a flight, an appointment or a date, it’s important to ensure you are there when you say you will be there. This may feel like an old-fashioned tip to give, but it has served me well for five decades in business.

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

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.