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.

If I wouldn’t have found Courtney, I probably would have carried on with a bisexual lifestyle.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

God gave me some weird, beautiful scent that makes men and women go crazy. People compare it to Carvel. It is a whale of a smell.

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

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.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can’t put a dollar sign on.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

I can’t very well be teaching one way and living my life another way. What I do in life must be consistent with the things I say. And the same goes for you.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

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

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Of course there are moments that you wonder how long you should be doing it because there are other aspects which are not nice, of this lifestyle. But I just love winning.

Virtue she finds too painful an endeavour, content to dwell in decencies for ever.

I could become very rich in Guatemala but by the low method of ratifying my title, opening a clinic, and specialising in allergies. To do that would be the most horrible betrayal of the two ‚I’s‘ struggling inside me: the socialist and the traveller.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

You can be happy where you are.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

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.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

If you’ve spent a long time developing a skill and techniques, and now some 14 year-old upstart can get exactly the same result, you might feel a bit miffed I suppose, but that has happened forever.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

We need to have business leaders who live by deep, strong principles.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

You don’t even really need a place. But you feel like you’re doing something. That is what coffee is. And that is one of the geniuses of the new coffee culture.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

I’m filthy rich!

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

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.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

During most of my freelancing, I made what I would have made in charge of the cafeteria at a pretty good junior-high school.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Many people in the western world are spoiled by the conveniences of our culture.