Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

I’ve turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

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

I’m a genetic optimist.

Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

The day you stop doing the small things is the day you think you’re above everybody else.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

I live in Puerto Rico, my family lives in Puerto Rico, my friends. What happens in Puerto Rico matters to me.

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

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

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.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

Politeness is, you know, is a wonderful thing. Manners are in fact, really important thing. But remember, Jesus didn’t have many manners as we now know.

Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

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

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Palestinians have no wealth or power.

People want to feel hopeful.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

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.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

If you’re afraid to fail, then you’re probably going to fail.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

It’s not the destination that matters. It’s the change of scene.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.