Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

Getting in and out of the car with the halo takes a bit of experience. I struggled initially, but after a few trial runs I was fine.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

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.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I’m one of the luckiest people on earth.

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

How do you know what it’s like to be stupid if you’ve never been smart?

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

The blessed of us must save the less of us. I’m blessed, and yeah, I’m planning to go to Heaven.

We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

Well, I was 29 years old when I came to the United States Senate, and I have learned a lot.

It is impossible to experience one’s death objectively and still carry a tune.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

You can’t be happy by doing something groovy.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

What’s real freedom? Real freedom is being able to not have my way and still be just as happy as if I did.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

I once did a three-hour interview with Radio Oxford only to be told the microphone hadn’t picked me up.

The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

I don’t have many sad days.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more.

If a country is to be corruption free and become a nation of beautiful minds, I strongly feel there are three key societal members who can make a difference. They are the father, the mother and the teacher.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

When I did A Soldier’s Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything!

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

The left paw has done me well over the years. I’m not a scientist, I’m a martial artist.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

Be as polite to the custodian as you are to the chairman of the board.