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

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

All of us are mentors. You’re mentors right here and now. And one of the things I’ve always done throughout my life, I have always found that person, that group of people that I was going to reach my hand out and help bring them along with me.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

I’m always attracted to people who interest me. They’ve got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They’re interested in people.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

It’s the journey of self, I guess. You start with this kind of loner, outside guy, which a lot of people can relate to, and he goes out into the world.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

I’m not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

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.

Read a record number of books in a given month. If you’re focused on intellectual growth, train yourself to study harder and longer than ever before.

Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it is impossible to be warned.

Have you not learned that strength comes to an ordinary soul when given an extraordinary calling?

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

You are the sum total of everything you’ve ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot – it’s all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

‚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.

Money ain’t everything.

The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.

I love the attention but I don’t like too much of it.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

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

If what you are doing is not moving you towards your goals, then it’s moving you away from your goals.

If you’re trying too hard to be the girl next door, you’re not going to be.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

I can imagine it’s hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn’t know.

We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Weak character will neutralize all of the other possible good qualities a person might possess.

Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important.