In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

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

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.

The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

Nobody in Singapore drinks Singapore Slings. It’s one of the first things you find out there. What you do in Singapore is eat. It’s a really food-crazy culture, where all of this great food is available in a kind of hawker-stand environment.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

Pop music will never be low brow.

The secret source of humor is not joy but sorrow; there is no humor in Heaven.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

The quarrels and divisions about religion were evils unknown to the heathen. The reason was because the religion of the heathen consisted rather in rites and ceremonies than in any constant belief.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, ‚We did it ourselves.‘

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I deserve respect for the things I did not do.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

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

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The biggest guru-mantra is: never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

If I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.