Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.

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.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

There is moderation even in excess.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

An onion can make people cry but there’s never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice.

The ordinary scientific man is strictly a sentimentalist. He is a sentimentalist in this essential sense, that he is soaked and swept away by mere associations.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

I want to believe that I am improving. This is something that I take really seriously.

I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?

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

On the other hand, what I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

I think it does Discworld good if I don’t write about it all the time: sometimes you have to get it out of your system.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I don’t know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I’m tired. I’m tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I’m tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

It’s not called quitting if you quit while you ahead. It’s about being aware and being strategic enough to know that you got to get out the pool at some point. You got to put your clothes back on and dry off.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

Training and resting takes up most of my time.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

I’m addicted to exercising and I have to do something every day.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.

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

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.