Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Leaders who fail to prune their pride will meet demise. That’s not a guess, it’s a guarantee. With pride, it’s not a matter of ‚if‘ we will fall, but ‚when.‘ There are no exceptions.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

I found it hard to be young. When I was married in my twenties, I hated being regarded as ‚the little wife.‘ You don’t know what it was like then! I’d never even written a cheque. I had to ask my husband for money for groceries.

A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

You can be happy where you are.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

I think that success is having fun.

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

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Peace begins with a smile.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.

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

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn’t have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation – not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

My wife used to be an anchorwoman in Arizona, so she knew John McCain, and she liked him, and I kinda liked him.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror – and America is honored to be their friend.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

There is but one way for a president to deal with Congress, and that is continuously, incessantly, and without interruption. If it is really going to work, the relationship has got to be almost incestuous.

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic – you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner.