Quotes About Contentment

I've never had a ton of money.

For a few years after I stopped playing people would ask me how I was coping with retirement and there would often be a slightly worried tone to their voice. But I always answered the question the same way: that if I knew retirement was going to be this good I would have quit a long time ago.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.

I feel like a million tonight - but one at a time.

I have a 'pillow test' - can I go to bed tonight knowing that I did my best today? If I can, I'm happy.

I guess I could sit around and say, 'Gee, I wish I were playing at the Capital Centre tonight instead of Hammerjacks,' but it doesn't happen.

In my humble opinion, having tons of products and furniture and magazines and clothes is not luxurious - living minimally is.

Sometimes I say to myself, 'Oh, I wish I could win a Tony Award', although I'm not that bothered.

When I die, it's going to read, 'Game Show Fixture Passes Away.' Nothing about the theater, or Tony Awards, or Emmys. But it doesn't bother me.

I would like to have won a Tony, I guess, because I have always thought of myself as a theater person. But I've won my share of awards, so I don't worry about it.

People ask me, 'Is there pressure to win a Tony for your next one?' I've got three on my mantelpiece; I'm good. If that's the end of the story, I'm fine.

Life is too short to have grudges and regrets.

One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

One's too many, and a hundred's not enough.

There's no need to look too far into the future or the past. Enjoy the moment.

Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything.

Life is too short and too sweet to complain about the silly things.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

At 67, you are what you are. I think it's too late to change much.

That's the problem in life nowadays - too many people look at what they haven't got. I just think: 'I've got a beautiful wife, family, good friends, beautiful home. I don't need anything. I won't change nothing.'

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Happiness: a way station between too little and too much.