Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

If a man or woman is born ten years sooner or later, their whole aspect and performance shall be different.

Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

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.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage – they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor.

Working with our military community has been the biggest honor of my life.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

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.

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.

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.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Material things are delightful, but they’re not important.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

I think the word rich is all relative.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The ideas associated with the problems of the development of science, as far as I can see by looking around me, are not of the kind that everyone appreciates.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

When you practice gratefulness, there is a sense of respect toward others.

I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

There is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest – that would be like a blind man willing to see.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

He has the most who is most content with the least.

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

Do everything as in the eye of another.

I’m not confused. I’m just well mixed.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.