Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

War is evil, but it is often the lesser evil.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

Life well spent is long.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

I’m my own worst critic, and if I don’t pull off what I think I wanted to do in my head, then I won’t be a happy girl.

To be idle and to be poor have always been reproaches, and therefore every man endeavors with his utmost care to hide his poverty from others, and his idleness from himself.

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

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

For me, education was power.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

I cry so much less than I used to. I used to be one of the most teary people.

Not being afraid to be wrong – I had to learn how to do that.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

Nature that framed us of four elements, warring within our breasts for regiment, doth teach us all to have aspiring minds.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

If you want small changes in your life, work on your attitude. But if you want big and primary changes, work on your paradigm.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Test yourself on mankind. It is something that makes the doubter doubt, the believer believe.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.