A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

If I’m gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That’s how it works.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like – that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me.

I want to thank God, obviously for the health, for the talent He’s given me, for my family who supports me, for the things that basketball’s taught me on and off the court. For the people that I’ve been able to meet through the game of basketball.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Fun is good.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

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

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

A good wife is one who serves her husband in the morning like a mother does, loves him in the day like a sister does and pleases him like a prostitute in the night.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Marriage destroyed my relationship with two wonderful men.

My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we’re blood.

Every man’s reputation proceeds from those of his own household.

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

I think that success is having fun.

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

Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.

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.

I think that it’s okay to be mad at someone who hurt you. This isn’t about, like, the pageantry of trying to seem like nothing affects you.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Humans are amphibians – half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.

Sensual love deceives one as to the nature of heavenly love; it could not do so alone, but since it unconsciously has the element of heavenly love within it, it can do so.

I’ve learned that we all change constantly. It’s rare to find that person who is growing with you in the same way at the same time, who encourages you to grow.

Children make your life important.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.

A woman can’t be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can’t do it by herself.

Time discovers truth.

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.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

If a man’s character is to be abused there’s nobody like a relative to do the business.

I am who I am today because of my mother.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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