A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.

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

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 I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

It is the most sensual men who need to flee women and torment their bodies.

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I mean, families are weird.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Be nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

You don’t want to live your life and then meet someone. You want to share your life with someone. That’s what I’m missing right now.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

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

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Men exist for the sake of one another.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

Man is by nature a political animal.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

Particularly Instagram, people look like they have a much better life than they really do. People basically seem like they are way better-looking than they really are, and they are way happier-seeming than they really are.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.

Great loves too must be endured.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

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

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

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I was adored once too.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

The difficult thing is that vulnerability is the first thing I look for in you and the last thing I’m willing to show you. In you, it’s courage and daring. In me, it’s weakness.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The public doesn’t mind people living together without being married, providing they don’t overdo it.

I don’t like people going behind my back.