Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

My family wasn’t rich, so when it comes to money, I tend to think, ‚Err on the side of caution.‘

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

The age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

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.

He that won’t be counseled can’t be helped.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

I was not the son of a worker or lacking in material or social resources for a relatively comfortable existence; I could say I miraculously escaped wealth.

The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

Error is always more busy than truth.

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.

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.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

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

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.

Men may change their climate, but they cannot change their nature. A man that goes out a fool cannot ride or sail himself into common sense.

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.

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

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

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

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

The wisest have the most authority.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

People want to go out and travel around and meet cool people. I could just go live in Vermont, but is that what I really want?

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.