Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask, ‚why don’t I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden,‘ and they abandon their values.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.

Never complain. Never explain.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

I already am a product.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

If I had a talent, it was for looking askew at everything, possibly more than my contemporaries. But I had to really push myself to be a writer.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

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.

I always believe that there should come a time when your energy, speed, stamina should combine well with your brains.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

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

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It’s impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Never mistake motion for action.

You can’t think; you just gotta do things.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Talk well of the absent whenever you have the opportunity.

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

I focus on my own job.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

I’m like a recovering perfectionist. For me it’s one day at a time.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.

I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens.

‚They‘ is… stay away from them, please. There is so many different definitions of ‚they.‘ You might have a personal ‚they.‘ They against you; they want you broken and miserable. They don’t like winners; they don’t like people who’s blessed. So everybody’s got a different ‚they.‘

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Most of one’s life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.