I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I believe the right question to ask, respecting all ornament, is simply this; was it done with enjoyment, was the carver happy while he was about it?

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Surround yourself with people who take their work seriously, but not themselves, those who work hard and play hard.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

Our inquiring friends and neighbors not of our faith can also catch the wave. We encourage them to keep all that is good and true in their lives. And we invite them to receive more, especially the glorious truth that through God’s eternal plan, families can be together forever.

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I’ll have a window with a view.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

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

My kids always perceived the bathroom as a place where you wait it out until all the groceries are unloaded from the car.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

It would have been difficult to have an ugly daughter.

True happiness… is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

My mom is American, so I was raised in her household in my formative years.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

It seems like we wake up and it’s a race until you get to bed. It gets to you after a while and you think, ‚What the hell am I doing?‘

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

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.

I don’t feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I’ve always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don’t fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

I just want to make sure when I have kids, I can spend time with them. That’s the whole point.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

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

Where thou art, that is home.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

When Nirvana became popular, you could very easily slip and get lost during that storm. I fortunately had really heavy anchors – old friends, family.

I didn’t have a father figure in the house.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

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

Health is the soul that animates all the enjoyments of life, which fade and are tasteless without it.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I’ve got a lot of that in me as well.

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.

I wasn’t going to shy away from getting married when I did and having a baby young and starting a family, even with the job that I chose.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

My fans saw me get engaged, saw me make that woman my wife, me having kids, me divorcing, me talking about divorce before the divorce, me talking about my kids‘ reaction to that divorce.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

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

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.

When I am playing baseball, I give it all that I have on the ball field. When the ball game is over, I certainly don’t take it home. My little girl who is sitting out there wouldn’t know the difference between a third strike and a foul ball. We don’t talk about baseball at home.

My theory on housework is, if the item doesn’t multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it be. No one else cares. Why should you?

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.