Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

Thanks to my fans that have been with me from the beginning, I was able to sell out arenas on my own.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

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.

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

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

I absolutely adore Christmas.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

It is plain indeed that in spite of later estrangement Hobbits are relatives of ours: far nearer to us than Elves, or even than Dwarves. Of old they spoke the languages of Men, after their own fashion, and liked and disliked much the same things as Men did. But what exactly our relationship is can no longer be discovered.

Women don’t try to use me.

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Love one another, but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and having a lot of responsibilities. At the same time, when I can go off with a backpack or off on a surfboard or even off on a run somewhere in the woods – that’s where I’m really happy.

The reason that I’m here at all is because of my relationship with my family and their encouragement of me to be a musician and to work hard. As long as I stay there in that space, I can do anything. That’s my truth.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I’ve 20,000 hours of clinical practice; you’re not naive after the first few thousand. I’ve helped people deal with things that most people can’t imagine.

The Revlon Run/Walk effort to focus on women’s cancer has my wholehearted support and gratitude.

For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it’s been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I’d just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

With increasing age, dullness of mind and heart sets in.

When you’re supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you’re talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you’re filming.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

A friend is nothing but a known enemy.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I feel like my message is to let people know that God is a good God, that He’s on their side, and no matter what happens, He has a great plan for them.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

Those Marriages generally abound most with Love and Constancy, that are preceded by a long Courtship.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

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

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

My wife, a schoolteacher, very disciplined. If you think I’m tough, trust me, and wait till you see when the children are on the naughty step. It’s hilarious. So we decided that I’m going to work like a donkey and provide amazing support for the family.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.

Many people, especially young people, would like to be more independent and on their own. But it is very difficult and they suffer from feelings of isolation. I think that is one reason why young readers support my work.

Where fear is, happiness is not.