What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but 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.

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

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

To be honest, I think kids have got a lot more going on than adults. They’ve got their heads screwed on a lot better.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

If I think more about death than some other people, it is probably because I love life more than they do.

As everything becomes digitized, there’s the idea that things that can’t be digitized become more valuable.

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.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn’t got any.

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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

Do creative, social, and civic attitudes change depending on where we live? Yes, I think so.

You can’t reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you’ll never lose people knowing you.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

I find the difference, for me, between having no money and having quite a bit is that the bills get bigger. And that’s it. The lifestyle doesn’t change.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

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

The label ‚liberal‘ or ‚conservative,‘ any – every time I hear that, I think of the great Gilbert and Sullivan song from ‚Iolanthe.‘ It goes, ‚Every gal and every boy that’s born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative.‘ What do those labels mean? It depends on whose ox is being gored.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

I collect records. And cats. I don’t have any cats right now. But if I’m taking a walk and I see a cat, I’m happy.

I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

Selling out is doing something you don’t really want to do for money. That’s what selling out is.

I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man’s happiness really lies in contentment.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

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.

A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

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

It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That’s why I don’t listen to anything that’s anonymous. But it’s hard; when there’s something hurtful out there, I still want to read it over and over and memorize it and explain my point of view to the person.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

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

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

It’s rare for a startup to make money immediately, so you need to make sure that you have enough saved or that you have another income stream that can support you.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.