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.

There is no such thing as part freedom.

Man is by nature a political animal.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

I have such respect for ‚Democracy Now!‘

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.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

In this country, it doesn’t make any difference where you were born. It doesn’t make any difference who your parents were. It doesn’t make any difference if, like me, you couldn’t even speak English until you were in your twenties.

I have kind of a funny relationship with movies. I don’t have to see the whole movie to get an impression of it or to let it have an influence on me.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination – and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past – are real and must be addressed.

I can easily imagine Obama sitting down and talking to any leader – or any person – in the world, with no baggage of past servitude or race supremacy to mar their talks.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

I cannot say for certain if there is such a thing as love at first sight, but I do know that the moment I first glimpsed Winnie Nomzamo, I knew that I wanted to have her as my wife.

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I’m not denyin‘ the women are foolish. God Almighty made ‚em to match the men.

A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone.

If someone is right for you, you’ll know it.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Science is global. Einstein’s equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

All of these young people have some kind of potential in them. And if we don’t invest in them as a nation, regardless of where they come from or what color they are, if we don’t invest in them, we lose.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

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.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters – two beautiful, intelligent black young women – playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

You can be happy where you are.

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.

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

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.

One should respect public opinion insofar as is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life.