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

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I find with most of my readers are kind of like me, sort of people who were a little bit naive in life and then learned the hard way that this is what’s going on, the political games and most of my readers write to me telling me that the book helped them open their eyes to what other people are doing to them.

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

There are a lot of people who don’t know me and what I am all about.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.

As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.

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

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.

With fame, you know, you can read about yourself, somebody else’s ideas about you, but what’s important is how you feel about yourself – for survival and living day to day with what comes up.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

I get nervous when I don’t get nervous. If I’m nervous I know I’m going to have a good show.

I’m honest enough to say I don’t know everything. You know, I don’t. I don’t understand all of God. I don’t understand, you know, some kind of why bad things happen.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Where thou art, that is home.

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

I’m not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself – then they get to say ‚See, you did it yourself.‘

It’s easy to forget who you are.

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

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.

You cannot see the changes that you’re dreaming about, because they’re internal.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Everyone assumes I practise all of my own laws but I don’t. I think anybody who did would be a horrible ugly person to be around.

Always be sincere, even if you don’t mean it.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I could never give relationship advice to anybody!

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

One must marry one’s feelings to one’s beliefs and ideas. That is probably the only way to achieve a measure of harmony in one’s life.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

I don’t think a lot of people know personally who I am.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

You know, most people really don’t know me.

It doesn’t take much to make me angry.