The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Do not laugh much or often or unrestrainedly.

How young can you die of old age?

I don’t believe you could be a 39-year-old quarterback in the NFL and eat cheeseburgers every day. I want to be able to do what I love to do for a long time.

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

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

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

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

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

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

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

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Without exercise, I don’t feel like my head works right.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

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.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Not many people come through esophageal cancer and live to talk about it, or not for long.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

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.

The inquiry constantly is what will please, not what will benefit the people. In such a government there can be nothing but temporary expedient, fickleness, and folly.

When I inspire myself, I want to spread the word because its important to be healthy. I don’t think they’re teaching us enough about that. I think we should eat better and exercise. Look who’s saying that – a guy who was 300 pounds – but I’m doing a lot better than I used to. I’m letting people know its important because it makes you feel better.

Smiles are the language of love.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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

There’s nothing like the endorphins from being fit, and the incredible endorphin rush that goes with that.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

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.

There are still many causes worth sacrificing for, so much history yet to be made.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

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.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.

I am very strict about what I eat. I do not consume anything that my body does not require. It takes a lot of sacrifice and discipline. It wasn’t easy before but now its second nature for me.

As a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, I know that the men and women of our intelligence community put their lives on the line every day, and they do very dangerous work to keep our country safe.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

One thing I just want to say to the military families – while you might not wear a uniform, I know – we all know, the nation knows – that you serve and sacrifice right alongside of your loved ones. And we are so grateful and proud of all of you for your service to this nation.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

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!

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

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.