In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you’ve become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that’s the height of intelligence.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

My father used to have an expression. He’d say, ‚Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. It’s about your dignity. It’s about respect. It’s about your place in your community.‘

‚Tis not enough your counsel still be true; Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn’t taught by men – it’s a gift from God.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I’m an idealist without illusions.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

I hold the door for the ladies – I’m a gent.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

My old drama coach used to say, ‚Don’t just do something, stand there.‘ Gary Cooper wasn’t afraid to do nothing.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Justice means minding one’s own business and not meddling with other men’s concerns.

Honoring the priesthood fosters respect, respect promotes reverence, and reverence invites revelation.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

It’s surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Fun is good.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

I always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.

I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

I am not promising that God will give you everything you want. There are times when we want things that God knows would not be good for us.

If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

It seems the older you get, the more life comes into focus.

In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it’s a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.