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

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.

I’m perpetually lonely.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody’s mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

I don’t think I’m such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Now, you lose something in your life, or you come into a conflict, and there’s gonna come a time that you’re gonna know: There was a reason for that. And at the end of your life, all the things you thought were periods, they turn out to be commas. There was never a full stop in any of it.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I’m not perfect.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

Therapy? I don’t need that. The roles that I choose are my therapy.

I hate to be smart.

I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money’s sake.

I think your values are always influenced by your family and your community.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

It was weird to be married; you kind of lose your identity. You’re suddenly somebody’s wife. And you’re like, ‚Oh, I’m half of a couple now. I’ve lost me.‘

My main goal is to be a self-made man and have control over what’s mine.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Occasionally the conflict between ‚what we stand for‘ and ‚what we do‘ has been forthrightly addressed.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect.

See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else’s cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God – if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That’s what I think.

I’m not generally a sensitive person, but I tend to be more sensitive toward others and what they’re going through. I don’t know if that’s the healthiest thing, but it’s the truth.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

I’ve watched a lot of people who became famous who completely change and I think it’s because they tend to believe all the hype that’s out there. I don’t think there’s that much hype about me.

All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

I don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Real riches are the riches possessed inside.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I’ve done that sort of thing in my life, but I’ve always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don’t know why. Because they’re harder. They’re much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you’ve completely failed.