Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

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.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

I think that success is having fun.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

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

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Some people spend their lives building ultimate dream homes so they can enjoy their twilight years… Others spend their last days in nursing homes.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

No one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.

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.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, – superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.

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

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.

Lost time is never found again.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Money ain’t everything.

The older I get, the better I understand that every day is a gift.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart.