No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Take my wife… Please!

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

I met my husband before I became a star, and he doesn’t care about any of it.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Marriage is like a game of chess except the board is flowing water, the pieces are made of smoke and no move you make will have any effect on the outcome.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

Where thou art, that is home.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

My wife thinks she’s better than me at puzzles. I haven’t given in on that one yet.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

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

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

I felt rich when I was 20 years old and my wife was paying my bills. Just being in a band, I’ve always felt blessed.

In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

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.‘

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

As you get older, you have more responsibilities; you have more commitments, more events, kids, you’re married now. You still have all the things that you’ve had, plus you just keep adding.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Fun is good.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.