A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

I mean… in life… what relationship is easy?

There are no rules when it comes to love.

We all have the duty to do good.

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

My momma didn’t clean up floors so I could be a thug… so I could wear my pants down.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

Doing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I kinda live where I find myself.

If something can corrupt you, you’re corrupted already.

I’ve been careful in love. I’ve been careless in love. And I’ve had adventures I wouldn’t trade for anything.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

I don’t like being alone.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I don’t like to read things that people write about me. I’d rather read what kids have to say about me because it’s not their profession to do that.

Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn’t.

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.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn’t intended.

Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking?

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Know then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.

I’ve had no problem harnessing anger.

There is just no comparison between having a dinner date with a man and staying home playing canasta with the girls.

Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.

Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

I don’t really know that much about love, it turns out.

I was married a few times, and one of my husbands was jealous of me writing.

Before you try to keep up with the Joneses, be sure they’re not trying to keep up with you.

As an athlete, you’d better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

I have never felt more confident in myself, more clear on who I am as a woman. But I am constantly thinking about my own health and making sure that I’m eating right and getting exercise and watching the aches and pains. I want to be this really fly 80-90-year old.

It is impossible to underrate human intelligence – beginning with one’s own.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

I can’t go out with a Republican.

My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.

Power has only one duty – to secure the social welfare of the People.

Crankiness is at the essence of all comedy. My wife and I were discussing the different types of cranky. There’s entertaining cranky, annoying cranky, angry cranky.

If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.