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.

All men are equal before fish.

The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

Human nature is not totally fixed, but on any realistic scale, evolutionary processes are much too slow to affect it.

I believe that God’s dream is that we be successful in our careers, and that we be able to send our kids to college. I don’t mean that everyone is going to be rich, and I preach a lot on blooming where you’re planted. But I don’t have the mindset that money is a bad thing.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

Isn’t it amazing that we are all made in God’s image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

You can be happy where you are.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Money does not change people, people change.

Happy the country that lives on nothing but its wits; cursed be the one that thinks it can get rich by planting or digging or drilling for wealth.

He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they’re not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don’t care about money, and that’s not my problem.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

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.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

He who is contented is rich.

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.

My dream is to be World Lightweight Champion in the UFC. Have more money than I know what to do with. And have a great life for my kids, grandkids, and everyone in my family.

As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities.

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

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

I think the word rich is all relative.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

I’m sick of giving creeps money off my soul.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

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

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.