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

I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they’re stones that don’t matter. As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to do some good.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

Fun is good.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I must be cruel, only to be kind.

At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

More people should read books. It’s the most concentrated experience you can have.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

Whatever possession we gain by our sword cannot be sure or lasting, but the love gained by kindness and moderation is certain and durable.

Doing a show for three weeks is nothing like doing a show for seven seasons.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

One of the things I’ve never been accused of is not caring about people.

I worked with Lawrence Olivier some years ago. He was a great mentor.

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

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

I write for myself things that I’ve gone through.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

There are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.

There is a courtesy of the heart; it is allied to love. From its springs the purest courtesy in the outward behavior.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Acting is a question of absorbing other people’s personalities and adding some of your own experience.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we’d go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father’s televised service for 17 years.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

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

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.

Sitting idle at home is the most painful experience for a footballer.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.