The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

I’ve never been that much of a money guy. I’m more of a film guy, and most of the money I’ve made is in defense of trying to keep creative control of my movies.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

I am criticised for not celebrating my goals enough. I am very happy from within, very calm. I just don’t celebrate. I celebrate inside.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn’t. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

I’ve never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

You make more money if you’re generous.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Marriage and family are ordained of God. The family is the most important social unit in time and in eternity. Under God’s great plan of happiness, families can be sealed in temples and be prepared to return to dwell in His holy presence forever. That is eternal life!

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

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.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

You can be happy where you are.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Taxation is just a sophisticated way of demanding money with menaces.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

There is no such thing as Something for nothing.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar.

My principles are more important than the money or my title.

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?

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

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 conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

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.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.