Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

My life is my message.

Change alone is unchanging.

It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

Life is an unanswered question, but let’s still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Jesus lived a life that was full of joy and contradictions and fights, you know? If they were to paint a picture of Jesus without contradictions, the gospels would be fake, but the contradictions are a sign of authenticity.

A man’s felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That’s what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don’t. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He’s a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

Time stays, we go.

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.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

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.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

You’re born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there’s a loophole.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

All that seems indispensible in stating the account between the dead and the living, is to see that the debts against the latter do not exceed the advances made by the former.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Peace in the world starts with peace in oneself. If everyone lives mindfully, everyone will be more healthy, feel more fulfilled in their daily lives and there will be more peace.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

Maria is the best reason to come home.

My philosophy in life is, Decide what you want to do. You have to have something to hope for.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.