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

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Once music ceases to be ephemeral – always disappearing – and becomes instead material… it leaves the condition of traditional music and enters the condition of painting. It becomes a painting, existing as material in space, not immaterial in time.

He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

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

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

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.

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

I knew credibility would come only in time and through earnest performances.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

In order for us to have a future that’s exciting and inspiring, it has to be one where we’re a space-bearing civilization.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

For greed all nature is too little.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Peace begins with a smile.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

My business is to prevent the future.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.