Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Love is an interesting thing.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

Smiles are the language of love.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

I really thought I was on the way out. My husband Blake saved my life. Often I don’t know what I do, then the next day the memory returns. And then I am engulfed in shame.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

I’ve never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

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.

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Men want to make women happy.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

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.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn’t. Without my husband’s help and encouragement, I could not have attempted what I have. Ours has been a contented and reasonable partnership, he with his solo jobs and I with mine. But always with work and play together, conducted under a satisfactory system of dual control.

Fight with a happy heart.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

I’ve learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

I mean, families are weird.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Assuming if there’s such a thing as reality, if you have a false relationship with it, how can you do anything but fail?

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

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

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

We’re so immaturely cynical as a culture. We’re not wise enough to look at an institution like marriage and to really things about what it means and what it signifies. It signifies a place where people can tie the ropes of their lives together so that they’re stronger. It signifies a place where people can tell the truth to one another.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

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.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.