That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

I don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.

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

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.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

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

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Many people aren’t rich because they’re liars.

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

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.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

As much as it might look like, to someone else, that I’m successful, I never feel like I’m anywhere. The further I go, I still feel equally further from my eventual goal. Because as I grow, I get more goals. I’m never content.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

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.

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

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us – dreamers and indolent… It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich – these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

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

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

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

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

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.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

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.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

I’m just a simple country girl.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.