I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

There’s nothing better than having a baby. I’ve always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I’d be overwhelmed, and it’s true… I can’t tell you how much my attitude has changed since we’ve got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

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

A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

My kids are the funniest two human beings there are.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

The palace is not safe when the cottage is not happy.

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

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.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

My mom and I are very close.

My family, frankly, they weren’t folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn’t raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.

The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.

I was a grade B housewife, maybe a B minus. But when I got time to write, I would be unable to finish a sentence. I had anxiety attacks. Partly it was a way of personifying the situation because I couldn’t breathe. I was surrounded by people and by duties. I was a housewife and the children’s mother, and I was judged on how I performed those roles.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

I imagine I will spend my days traveling from country to country to visit our children, who I expect will live around the world.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox.

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

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

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Music is really driving my whole life.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

If you want to deal with an epidemic – crime or health – the smartest and most effective and cheapest way to deal with it is prevention first.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

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

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

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

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

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

Do I live as carelessly and worldly as unbelievers while professing to be a follower of Jesus? If so, I am exposing Christianity to ridicule and leading people to speak evil of the holy name by which I am called.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

I have ‚Parents‘ magazine in my home.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Perhaps it’s good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he’s happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.