You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

I believe many people feel like God is mad at them. One day I put a post on Facebook that said, ‚God is not mad at you.‘ Within a few hours, we literally had thousands of positive responses from people saying things like, ‚That is exactly what I needed to hear today.‘ Obviously, this is a message we need to hear.

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty damn good.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

Our vision and commitment is towards the country’s progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.

I am a very emotional guy. What I love, I do with all I have.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn’t possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity of others.

All mankind love a lover.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Hate has no place in the house of God.

I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.

Life’s a bit like mountaineering – never look down.

There’s something about being in front of a live audience that’s fun. It’s a really interesting, very electric, very alive, and intense experience, and you can’t get it anywhere else. And I’ve been doing it since I was 23, so it’s part of my being – it’s part of my fabric as a person.

A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

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

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

In the real world, children love me.

One man cannot practice many arts with success.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Attitude and enthusiasm play a big part in my life. I get excited about the things that inspire me. I also believe in laughing and having a good time.