My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

Love is trembling happiness.

Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

Thanks to Botox and fillers, as well as the work that I’ve already had, my face pretty much maintains itself.

I’m a Christian by choice.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

I don’t believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Where thou art, that is home.

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

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.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The march of the human mind is slow.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

There’s people that appreciate what I do; there’s people that criticize it.

I’ve been a lot more into Facebook and Twitter and Instagram, which was a bit complicated for me to understand the language of each social media, because they all talk in different ways. It’s a nice way for me to tell people I appreciate them, which I forget to do sometimes.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

The cause of my life has been to oppose superstition. It’s a battle you can’t hope to win – it’s a battle that’s going to go on forever. It’s part of the human condition.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

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

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?

Great countries are those that produce great people.

I have always thought I was the best ever player.

God’s Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

When someone bestows something on you, no matter how true it is, when someone says, ‚Sexiest Man Alive,‘ I’m honestly going, ‚Thank you. Right on.‘ For me, it’s never canceled out anything, it’s never made me go, ‚Does this make me less talented of an actor?‘

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

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.

Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

People are always coming up to me and saying, ‚I heard your dad’s speech, and it’s really great.‘ And they’ll mention some place I didn’t even know my dad was going to.

The best way to know God is to love many things.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

If you have God on your side, everything becomes clear.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.