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

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

I can express myself.

Spiritual people don’t float around all day on clouds of glory; they live in the real world and deal with real issues in real ways.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

I like to take every day just searching my own heart, making sure that I’m on course, and I’m doing what God wants me to do. I’m real good with not looking to the critics and looking straight ahead.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

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.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.

You’re not going to scare me into being somebody I don’t want to be.

I think I’m pretty smart. I think I’m pretty clever. But there’s a lot that you hone in on when you finish your education.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

If it’s going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

I feel that sin and evil are the negative part of you, and I think it’s like a battery: you’ve got to have the negative and the positive in order to be a complete person.

Our necessities never equal our wants.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

When I was in college I did a lot of stupid things and I don’t want to make an excuse for that. Some of the things that people accuse me of are true, some of them aren’t. There are pranks, IMs.

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

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.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I’ve experienced great things, I’ve experienced great tragedies. I’ve done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there’s more.

I do not live on false promises. I cannot afford to live on bad advice.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

I was born with a great gift, and sometimes with that comes a destructive streak.

The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life’s wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

Each book I’ve done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.

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.

The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don’t know if I’ll ever be as good a dad as my dad.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you’re defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

I’ve had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it’s not what I look for when I’m seeing someone.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.