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

Initiative is doing the right things without being told.

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.

Respect the burden.

I became a Communist by studying capitalist political economy, and when I had some understanding of that problem, it actually seemed to me so absurd, so irrational, so inhuman, that I simply began to elaborate on my own formulas for production and distribution.

There is a soak-the-rich attitude in the air, a feeling that if you have a lot of money you must have got it by some ghastly means. I can quite happily say there was never any family money. All the money we got was mine, just from writing books.

Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.

Love is trembling happiness.

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.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

Accept the terrible responsibility of life with eyes wide open.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Men want to make women happy.

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

I believe God wants you to have money to pay your bills, send your kids to college and do charity work and build orphanages. There’s the teaching that we’re supposed to be poor to show that we’re humble. I don’t buy that. I think we’re supposed to be leaders. We’re supposed to excel.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

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

There is no wealth but life.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

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

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

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.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

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.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

To eat is to appropriate by destruction.

The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Duty cannot exist without faith.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

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.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

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.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.