We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?

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

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.

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

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Few people realize that luck is created.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Advertising works most effectively when it’s in line with what people are already trying to do. And people are trying to communicate in a certain way on Facebook – they share information with their friends, they learn about what their friends are doing – so there’s really a whole new opportunity for a new type of advertising model within that.

You may never get to that perfect world that you’re waiting for where everything’s going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

What we think, we become.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

Too many people spend money they haven’t earned to buy things they don’t want to impress people they don’t like.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Everybody is entertained to death.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The time to worrying about flying is when you’re on the ground. When you’re up in the air, it’s too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Music is always a commentary on society.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

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

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Fight with a happy heart.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Money can’t buy life.

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

How you played in yesterday’s game is all that counts.

Life cannot subsist in society but by reciprocal concessions.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.