I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

I don’t like drinking, basically.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

If you’re not careful to think and speak words of faith, worry will creep in, and it will not only steal your peace and joy, it will steal your ‚today.‘ The present is the greatest gift God ever gives us. So hold on to the peace that’s yours in Christ. Don’t let it go.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I think being funny is not anyone’s first choice.

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again.

I never drink anything hot; I don’t like hot drinks, very strange.

A judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints, for that would show not only disregard for the specifics of the particular case, it would display disdain for the entire judicial process.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength: joy is love; joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

No, I never thought I would like cats.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

My three children have brought me great joy.

My dear brothers and sisters, the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

White… is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black… God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white.

The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Taste is the only morality. Tell me what you like and I’ll tell you what you are.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

Men don’t really like skinny, do they?

I’m a really particular person. I want it my way.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

I’ve never had a divorce, but I’ve seen so many of my friends, my sister, my family go through that stuff, so I try to write for the people that can’t write about it. I take on their sorrow, so I’m able to kind of express it, or their joy.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we’re going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we’re also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.