Will Carleton Quotes

People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're just going to. Even if you get the money, you're not going to be happy.

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it.

There are many people in the world who feel that if only they had a bigger car, a nicer house, better vacations, a more understanding boss, or a more interesting partner, then their life would work. We all go through that one. Slowly we wear out most of our 'if onlies.'

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

When money is seen as a solution for every problem, money itself becomes the problem.

Maybe it would have been better if neither of us had been born.

Everyone wants, wants, wants... and when they have, they feel desperate.

There is nothing wrong with having nice things, but when you are trying to buy nice things to be happy, you are going to hurt. It's not going to work.

Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

Money is a bad friend. Don't ever do anything for money.

Those regrets that I do have are, exclusively, not doing plays that I wish I had done.

The worst thing in life is not to die but to live with bitterness.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

Not many people get that 'happily ever after' they want in life. There are disappointments every step of the way, no matter how hard one strives for the best.

By the time you get what you always wanted, you want something else.

Whenever money is in the game, it can suffocate anything and anyone else, and I think people have been misled by money, or the dream of money, or selling the dream that if you've made it money-wise, you've made a life. Which is a lie. You don't get happiness by money.

I'd like to have all of my losses back. But it's too late for that.

The grass is always greener on the other side - until you get there and see it's AstroTurf. Symbols are never reality. Someone might have amassed material success and fame, but that doesn't mean they're happy. So, don't go judging a person's life by the cover.

Ask most guys what their ambition is, and they'll say they want to get rich. But when they get rich, they discover it's not what they wanted at all. I don't want to be rich.