Paul Simon Quotes

Money will never make you happy if you are an unhappy person.

Be happy. If you're successful but unhappy, that's emptiness.

It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

So much of unhappiness, it seems to me, is due to nerves; and bad nerves are the result of having nothing to do, or doing a thing badly, unsuccessfully or incompetently. Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do. True happiness comes to those who do their work well, followed by a refreshing period of rest. True happiness comes from the right amount of work for the day.

I don't know what good it is to know so much and be smart as whips and all if it doesn't make you happy.

I usually say the aim of life is to be happy. Our existence is based on hope. Our life is rooted in the opportunity to be happy, not necessarily wealthy, but happy within our own minds. If we only indulge in sensory pleasure, we'll be little different from animals. In fact, we have this marvellous brain and intelligence; we must learn to use it.

Success, wealth, good health and nurturing relationships are by-products of happiness, not the cause.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

You're asking if I'm happy? I've got 87 million in the bank, I've got a Rolls Royce, I've got 3 stalkers, I'm about to go on the board at Manchester City, I'm part of the greatest band in the world. Am I happy with that? No, I'm not! I want more!

We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing.

Fame an fortune are nothing if you're not happy and healthy.

You might not make it to the top, but if you are doing what you love, there is much more happiness there than being rich or famous.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.

Follow your passion. Nothing - not wealth, success, accolades or fame - is worth spending a lifetime doing things you don't enjoy.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

But all the money in the world cannot make you happy either, so there has to be a balance.

Happiness doesn't come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which is why we are far more powerful than ever before but we don't seem to be much happier.

I thought, 'Write a hit, you'll be rich and happy.' Meet one of the most beautiful girls in the world, one of the most talented and I'll be happy. All of that: I'm not happy.

Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

Money and fame, it only makes you so happy. You gotta find other reasons to fight. I want a certain amount of money to do the things that I want to do.

I'm not obsessed with the idea of fame or lots of money or social power. I can actually do want I want to do - I'm free - isn't that the greatest prize?

Success itself doesn't give you happiness. It's what you do with your success that gives you happiness.

Of mortals there is no one who is happy. If wealth flows in upon one, one may be perhaps luckier than one's neighbor, but still not happy.