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.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

When people need love and understanding and support the most is when they deserve it the least.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

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

Basically, I live to do gigs.

Love is trembling happiness.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

You are Mrs. Reagan because Mr. Reagan loves you with all his heart.

I can dance to just about anything.

I can get where some scientists would say comedians are crazy. What you have to understand: A lot of comedians are dealing with a dark passion. A lot of these are guys coming from a tumultuous life, including myself. Some people need outlets, a way to express yourself.

Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.

My focus is my art, and that’s what I love to do. I have to be really passionate in order to do something. I’ve turned down many things that I just didn’t believe in.

I felt I really wanted to back off from music completely and just work within the visual arts in some way. I started painting quite passionately at that time.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

I only want my work to make people happy.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

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

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can’t really explain – let’s just say it’s all I can really do while I’m doing it.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

I’m drawn to bad romances.

Start your diet during a period of optimism and happiness.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

I’m not looking to get away from anything. I like what I’ve done. I like what I get to do and I enjoy working with my friends. I loved those movies, but this is incredible.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

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.

I don’t keep people around me that aren’t family. You don’t get to stay. Unless you’re eating at the table with us, you’re not part. We eat together, we cry together, we live together, we die together. Everything that we do is for each other, and we care for another.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

If you’re serious, you really understand that it’s important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you’re the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you’re funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that’s going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

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

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

A conqueror is always a lover of peace.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

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