If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

That it will never come again is what makes life sweet.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

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.

Your Highest Self is not just an idea that sounds lofty and spiritual. It is a way of being. It is the very first principle that you must come to understand and embrace as you move toward attracting to you that which you want and need for this parenthesis in eternity that you know as your life.

I wonder how many decisions we make every day. I believe it’s probably hundreds. We decide whether or not to get out of bed, what we’ll eat, what we’ll do, what we’ll think about, what we’ll say… and on and on.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

I believe that having a spiritual life is so important in everybody’s life.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Sometimes I catch myself stooping, and whenever I am like that, I am sure something is not quite right.

I know I do not exaggerate, unconsciously and unintentionally, the scantiness of my resources and the difficulty of my life… I know that, but for the mercy of God, I might easily have been, for any care that was taken of me, a little robber or a vagabond.

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

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Die to everything of yesterday so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigor and passion.

I resent the implication that I’m less of a musician and a worse person for not appreciating certain works.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

What a liberation to realize that the ‚voice in my head‘ is not who I am. ‚Who am I, then?‘ The one who sees that.

Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.

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.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

People don’t realize what they had till it’s gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one like him, the Beatles, and my man Elvis Presley. I was the Elvis of boxing.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I’m grateful for the evangelical resurgence we’ve seen across the world in the last half-century or so. It truly has been God’s doing.

Man is unable to see himself entirely unrelated to mankind, neither is he able to see mankind unrelated to life, nor life unrelated to the universe.

It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting.

You carry Mother Earth within you. She is not outside of you. Mother Earth is not just your environment.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

Over the years, all my coaches and my teammates have contributed a lot to shape my career. I can never forget their contribution and help.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.