Work and live to serve others to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
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.
The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Happiness is found in doing not merely possessing.
A sure way to lose happiness I found is to want it at the expense of everything else.
I tell students that even if they don't like math right now they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career but that also builds self-confidence no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
In reading the lives of great men I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.
The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able vicariously to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat what's more with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.