"A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest."
I found this article yesterday, two handwritten notes written by Einstein and gifted to a courier from the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo. Their history is a little blurry, but I love his thoughts on happiness:
The first note, written on a sheet of hotel stationery, explains "a quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest".
The second, scrawled on a blank piece of paper, simply states: "where there's a will, there's a way".
Simple, yet pretty spot on.