Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing – after they’ve tried everything else.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

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

I’ve heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I’ve brought a big bat. I’m all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!

I’m an emotional person.

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

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Science never makes things that do not have to do with what we feel, by which I mean what we want and what we fear.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.

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.

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.

All you need is love.

Compliment three people every day.

As I’m traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we’ve harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don’t know what I feel; I just don’t know what the emotion is.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‚I’m possible‘!

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Then, when I’m in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it’s all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

Bragging just sounds good, man.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

I think a big test we all face in life on a regular basis is that discouragement test. Life’s not always fair, but I believe if you keep doing the right thing, God will get you to where you are.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I never fall in love.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.