At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man’s heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

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

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

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

My songs have always been frustrating themes, relationships that I’ve had. And now that I’m in love, I expect it to be really happy, or at least there won’t be half as much anger as there was.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

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.

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn’t something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing – it’s just an expression of me.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

I really love training and being in good shape, and it’s so much a part of my life now, so it never really feels like work to me.

If you love something – and there are things that I love – you do want more and more and more of it, but that’s not the way to produce good work.

Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don’t know why this one is different, but it is. You don’t know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can’t stop thinking about it.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

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.

The immigration issue is, I recognize, one that generates a lot of passion, but it does not make sense for us to want to push talent out.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

I knew that I was ‚interesting‘ at 18 because I was aware that I could get away with doing things on stage.

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.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

My audience went, ‚Wait, why is she singing jazz? What’s going on?‘ And then they went, ‚Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.‘ And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.

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.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

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

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

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

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

It is my desire, in the office of a Christian minister, to do nothing which I cannot do with my whole heart. Having said this, I have said all.

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

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.