Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

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.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

I’ve suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

Little things affect little minds.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

What one fool can understand, another can.

I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

It’s very inexpensive to give a compliment.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

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.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

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.

What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

Some people take defeat and losses a certain way. You see how some fighters take losses.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

Our experience of any painting is always the latest line in a long conversation we’ve been having with painting. There’s no way of looking at art as though you hadn’t seen art before.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people’s tragedies.

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.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

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

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

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you’re working on.

There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.

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

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

When someone is impatient and says, ‚I haven’t got all day,‘ I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?

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

I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.