As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

Do the difficult things while they are easy, and do the great things while they are small.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Gratitude is the way to happiness.

Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

There are two ways to get enough: One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

I must be a mermaid, I have no fear of depths, and a great fear of shallow living.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.