To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

The doer alone learneth.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

Don’t get older just to get wiser. If you get older, you will be wiser, I believe that – if you dare. But get older because it’s fun!

Nothing I can say or devise, and nothing anybody else can say or devise, is going to be perfect.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

But ever since I was a kid, I was always the winner.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

When you begin to worry, go find something to do. Get busy being a blessing to someone; do something fruitful. Talking about your problem or sitting alone, thinking about it, does no good; it serves only to make you miserable. Above all else, remember that worrying is totally useless. Worrying will not solve your problem.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

As pessimistic as I am about the nature of human beings and our capacity for atrocity and malevolence and betrayal and laziness and inertia, and all those things, I think we can transcend all that and set things straight.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

My only fault is that I don’t realize how great I really am.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

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

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

I was always taught not to answer no questions. I’m not really good at answering them because I get agitated so fast.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.

I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I’m going to grow artistically.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

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

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I can’t jump the highest. I’m obviously not the biggest, not the strongest.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

To create something you must be something.

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