I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Fight with a happy heart.

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

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

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

A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people’s bad manners.

We should not look down on our first ancestors.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I don’t envy or much respect people who are completely politicised.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

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

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal Flatts and Brad Paisley. I learned so much from opening up for those artists, and it also taught me how to treat your opening acts and make them feel like they’re part of a family, not just a tour.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

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 hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.

You’re morally tainted if you don’t treat both the accuser and the accused with fairness and with respect, and with due process.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

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

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.