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

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

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

The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

We are often attracted to the wrong things, whether it be money, fame, or approval.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I think that success is having fun.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

If God can’t get you to obey Him concerning your money, he won’t get to anything else you got.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

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

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

We were poor, but we smiled.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

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.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

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

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

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.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

I will never win an Oscar, and do you know why? First of all, because I’m not Jewish. Secondly, I make too much money for all those old farts in the Academy.

Money is a strange business. People who haven’t got it aim it strongly. People who have are full of troubles.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

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

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.

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

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

It’s not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.