That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you. They helped shape reality, and I think human beings wouldn’t be human without narrative fiction.

As a global society, we do not have to agree, endorse or condone the lifestyle choices of others. However, history has taught us that we equally cannot and should not excuse those who would hide behind religion or misuse God’s word to justify bigotry and persecution.

We have to do more than just elect a new President if we truly want to change this country.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

I have this feeling that the world is not in balance. And people are afraid, but we’re also starting to be really brave.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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

People do not make wars; governments do.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

He who is contented is rich.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

The environment that we call society is created by past generations; we accept it, as it helps us to maintain our greed, possessiveness, illusion.

No one has done a study on this, as far as I can tell, but I think Facebook might be the first place where a large number of people have come out. We didn’t create that – society was generally ready for that. I think this is just part of the general trend that we talked about, about society being more open, and I think that’s good.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

Human beings love poetry. They don’t even know it sometimes… whether they’re the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber… they’re listening to poetry.

Some of these Ivy League kids want to have it both ways. They want to be baby members of the 1 percent, which they most certainly are, and yet still portray themselves as the oppressed.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

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.

It’s very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

It’s God’s will for you to live in prosperity instead of poverty. It’s God’s will for you to pay your bills and not be in debt.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won’t make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa – and it’s about getting a balance.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

To me, the black black woman is our essential mother, the blacker she is the more us she is and to see the hatred that is turned on her is enough to make me despair, almost entirely, of our future as a people.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.