Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

The schools ain’t what they used to be and never was.

People think, because we’re young, we aren’t complex, but that’s not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

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.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

The life so short, the craft so long to learn.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Nothing recedes like progress.

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.

I think that people are tired. They’re tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

Fun is good.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I don’t think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.

Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

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

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

You can live within the institutions and work hard to change them.

Our existence is beyond our explanation, whether we believe in God or we have religion or we’re atheist. Our existence is beyond our understanding. No one has an answer.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Even with all the advantages of retrospect, and a lot of witnesses dead and gone, you can’t make your life look as if you intended it or you were consistent. All you can show is how you dealt with various hands.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I definitely connected to the fact that life gets out of control and you end up doing things and wishing you were doing other things instead.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.