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 man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Don’t complain. The Israelites wasted forty years murmuring and complaining in the wilderness, when they could have just obeyed God and entered into their Promised Land.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

A jug fills drop by drop.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

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

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man’s, I mean.

God wants to bless us where we are.

The human body is strange and flawed and unpredictable. The human body has many secrets, and it does not divulge them to anyone, except those who have learned to wait.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It’s enough. I’m enough. My kids are enough.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

I don’t mean to be cocky, but if I’m never on TV again, if I never make another dollar, I am proud. I did what I wanted to do.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

Nature study will show you how full of beautiful and wonderful things God has made the world for you to enjoy. Be contented with what you have got and make the best of it. Look on the bright side of things instead of the gloomy one.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

What we need is a system of thought – you might even call it a religion – that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.