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

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we’re dreaming all the time. That’s what really gets me. We have a fathomless lake of unconsciousness just beneath our skulls.

Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

It’s not going to do any good to land on Mars if we’re stupid.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

Time discovers truth.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

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.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

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

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Fight with a happy heart.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

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

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won’t be a world – at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others.

The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

You can’t learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

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

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization.