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.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Everything isn’t political.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I’m filthy rich!

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

Like the experience of warfare, the endurance of grave or terminal illness involves long periods of tedium and anxiety, punctuated by briefer interludes of stark terror and pain.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Sometimes, women in families put themselves last until it manifests itself in their own health.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

I’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.

Every wall is a door.

Sometimes there are no good guys. There are no bad guys. It seems like everybody is in the middle.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.

I am in my own head most of the time.

Worry and reasoning are two of Satan’s most successful tools. He’ll get us started with one negative thought and then sit back and watch us finish ourselves off.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Affluence means influence.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

Of course, I do everything for money.

I don’t know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I’m a great gift to the world. I’ve been very fortunate.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

I must confess that I lead a miserable life. For almost two years, I have ceased to attend any social functions, just because I find it impossible to say to people, ‚I am deaf.‘ If I had any other profession, I might be able to cope with my infirmity; but in my profession, it is a terrible handicap.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Once you get into this great stream of history, you can’t get out.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

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

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.