By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

He knows my limitations and where I’m a good wife and a good mom.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Friends are thieves of time.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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

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

I’m not saying that love always takes you to heaven. Your life can become a nightmare. But that said, it is worth taking the risk.

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

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

President Assad, I worked with. I know him reasonably well, met with him a few times, and he’s a liar.

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.

Friends accept you the way you are.

I love the ending of a movie where two people end up together. Preferably if there’s rain and an airport or running or a confession of love.

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

We’ve got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can’t just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it’s going to get on by itself. You’ve got to keep watering it. You’ve got to really look after it and nurture it.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions.

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

There is nothing I love as much as a good fight.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

I never promise anything. I don’t promise anything to my mum. I don’t promise anything to the supporters.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

All the songs I write are about human dynamics, whether it’s with girlfriends, boyfriends, or family.

Children make your life important.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Love can do much, but duty more.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

It is necessary to fall in love… if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

I cannot remember a moment in my life when I have not felt the love of my family. We were a family that would have killed for each other – and we still are.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

They died hard, those savage men – like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.

Why do Jewish men die before their wives? They want to.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.