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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."

"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."

"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."

"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."

"When I am centered on love I don't need to be better than you. I don't need to be rich. I don't even need to be extraordinary. When I am centered on love, who I am and where I am at is enough."

"Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient champagne."

"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."

"If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
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"Kids. They're not tin cans or sheetrock. They're laughing machines. Wind them up and watch them go."

"Starting the Day- Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own sunrise. To awaken like a prayer -both solemn and joyful at still being alive."

"Dream young. Don't settle for old - for to be old is to be superstitious and without curiosity and always questioning your faith. And be ferocious in your dreaming - run like a sun's explosion, and skip across bluing waves, and dance upon tips of swan feathers."

"No, you become a man when you first decide to put away the things of childhood, the talk of childhood, and the thoughts of childhood. You decide because you cannot be treated as both a man and a boy. Because you are either one or the other, but you are not both . . ."

"Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something."

"I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making."

"Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken."

"How much better does being alive get then sitting beside a warm fire amidst a misty rainy morning."
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