At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

If you’re going to spend two years of your life on something, it has to matter to you; you have to be passionate about it.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

Love is only one of many passions.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

You don’t come into cooking to get rich.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

My work as an artist is completely separate from my work as a philanthropist.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

If you want to be successful, it’s just this simple. Know what you are doing. Love what you are doing. And believe in what you are doing.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

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

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

It’s very fun to be the hunter of the sounds. The hunter of the right energy. And it’s not really about if every sound is correct; it’s more the energy – if it hits you in some way, it doesn’t really matter to me if it’s not perfect. I’m still very excited while hunting for songs.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I would get out of school and go straight to my computer to create beats.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.