Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Life is a song to me.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

It’s the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

Like so many American families, our families weren’t asking for much. They didn’t begrudge anyone else’s success or care that others had much more than they did… in fact, they admired it.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.

It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Satan wants us to constantly focus on everything that is wrong with us and look at how far we still have to go. But God desires for us to rejoice in how far we have already come.

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.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

When you are an actor, you have to stay inside this world, but when you are with the crew, on the outside, you are in the dirt, working through all the issues. It’s just a different way of working, and I think I preferred it.

Revenge, lust, ambition, pride, and self-will are too often exalted as the gods of man’s idolatry; while holiness, peace, contentment, and humility are viewed as unworthy of a serious thought.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

He who is contented is rich.

Some men see things as they are, and say why. I dream of things that never were, and say why not.

I think that we all know what evil is. We have a sense of what’s evil, and certainly killing innocent people is evil. We’re less sure about what is good. There’s sort of good, good enough, could be better – but absolute good is a little harder to define.

An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

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

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

If I died tomorrow, I would be a happy girl.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.