We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

What we will do is we’ll say, ‚Okay, you have your page, and if you’re not trying to organize harm against someone, or attacking someone, then you can put up that content on your page, even if people might disagree with it or find it offensive.‘ But that doesn’t mean that we have a responsibility to make it widely distributed in News Feed.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

In a rich man’s house there is no place to spit but his face.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

He who is contented is rich.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

He has committed the crime who profits by it.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

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

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

The book, ’12 Rules For Life,‘ is a very serious book. There’s elements of humor in it, but I’m trying to struggle with things at the deepest possible level and to explain to people why it’s necessary to live a upstanding and noble and moral and truthful and responsible life, and why there’s hell to pay if you don’t do that.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I said that America’s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation, and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners.

Obama’s primary constituency was financial institutions. They were the core of the funding for his campaign. They expect to be paid back. And they were. They were paid back by coming out richer and more powerful than they were before the crisis that they created.

Learning is the beginning of wealth. Learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of spirituality. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

We’ve persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people – a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it’s time to turn the page.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

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

It is a way to take people’s wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all.

I can tell you this: If I’m ever in a position to call the shots, I’m not going to rush to send somebody else’s kids into a war.

Responsibility is the price of freedom.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.