I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things. So I’m very, very grateful; it’s a fun job. It’s a luxury.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

God has entrusted me with myself.

Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

I didn’t live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don’t know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

I am a strong believer that without justice, there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.

I even found it difficult to watch myself playing on TV because I couldn’t identify with the person on the screen. I couldn’t get to grips with it. It was as if it was all happening to someone else.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

My life is real.

Peace begins with a smile.

I was becoming post-ideological.

Life well spent is long.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein’s regime is a better and safer place.

You can’t make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can’t make peace without Syria.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars – yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments.

There are some Christian people who taste and see and enjoy religion in their own souls, and who get at a deeper knowledge of it than books can ever give them, though they should search all their days.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

We should purify our innate well of contentment – what a wonderful expression – and then external things will be in harmony with us.

I’ve always been – you know, my personality is motivating and encouraging. And so I’m just being who God made me to be.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.

I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it.

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?

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.