Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

If you’re performing music that is not who you are or where you’re at, it is painful. It’s painful for the performer and for the audience.

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.

Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has.

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.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

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.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

We do not judge the people we love.

I have to tell you, my seven-year-old granddaughter said to my daughter, her mother, ‚So what’s the big deal about Grandma Maddy having been Secretary of State? Only girls are Secretaries of State.‘ Most of her lifetime, it’s true. But at the time it really was a big deal.

Maids want nothing but husbands, and when they have them, they want everything.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Everything we touch in our daily lives, including our body, is a miracle. By putting the kingdom of god in the right place, it shows us it is possible to live happily right here, right now.

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

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

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

Love is trembling happiness.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

It’s true; once you are a father, there’s no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

They dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

The prospect of dating someone in her twenties becomes less appealing as you get older. At some point in your life, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there’s nothing really to talk about.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

My work and my family are very important to me.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

He who hath many friends hath none.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

I think there are things that are based in your own dealings with someone that is a personal dealing, not a public dealing. Because you have personal experiences.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

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.

My mom is very religious – Catholic – and from a young age they brought me to the church.

I supported Donald Trump.

I think happiness is a goal all of us can agree on. Let’s face it – we all would like to be happy.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

When we talk about mortality, we are talking about our children.

FaceTime helps me a lot. I feel like I’m at home even though I’m not.

In our home there was always prayer – aloud, proud and unapologetic.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.