It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

For people who live in the suburbs and must commute long distances to work, their wealth will sink as energy prices rise.

No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.

I take my sleep very, very important.

Rappers aren’t the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone’s business to be super wealthy.

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I look forward to a great future for America – a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

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

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.

True liberal government is founded on the emancipation of men.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

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.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

The successful men I admired all built their bodies.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

If you look at anyone who has achieved great success and wealth, people like Warren Buffett, Oprah Winfrey, or Lance Armstrong, they have all focused intensely in order to win.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

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!

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.