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

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

I don’t think I’m an unlucky person.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

You have to steal a lot. You have to have a criminal mentality to be a film director.

Without tact you can learn nothing.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I’m just looking to learn, grow, stay focused, and become a better fighter and a better athlete.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Don’t find fault, find a remedy.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

Competition is a sin.

Have the humility to learn from those around you.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.

I always had a sense of discipline in me. However, there was a time when I couldn’t divide my time properly between off-field things and on-field assignments. The focus would be missing at times, and that would affect my preparation for matches. I managed to change that.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

Transforming yourself into a deep listener will not only prove more amusing as you open your mind to their mind, but you will gain the most invaluable lessons about human psychology.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

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.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

A strong man doesn’t have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn’t match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

When you are learning about a martial art, it is about respect.

Read the Bible. Work hard and honestly. And don’t complain.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

We become what we repeatedly do.

In my next incarnation, I want to be a writer.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

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

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.