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.

I don’t have many sad days.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I’d written? Yes. There’s many of them!

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

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.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

If the standard transsexual person wants to be regarded as he or she, my sense is I’ll address you according to the part that you appear to be playing.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.

Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

Democracy… is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

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.

There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

You know that being an American is more than a matter of where your parents came from. It is a belief that all men are created free and equal and that everyone deserves an even break.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men’s skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God.

So far is it from being true that men are naturally equal, that no two people can be half an hour together, but one shall acquire an evident superiority over the other.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Girls shouldn’t worry about being the equal of men in the business world.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

We are not actually equal – humanity – if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

The gods‘ service is tolerable, man’s intolerable.

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

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

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

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

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.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe.

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.