If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing.

Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you; rebuke the wise, and they will love you.

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

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

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Acting is just a way of making a living, the family is life.

It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available – more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

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

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

Really, who you are is defined by the people who you know – not even the people that you know, but the people you spend time with and the people that you love and the people that you work with. I guess we show your friends in your profile, but that’s kind of different from the information you put in your profile.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.

A lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

Marriage is the death of hope.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

We’ve had three big ideas at Amazon that we’ve stuck with for 18 years, and they’re the reason we’re successful: Put the customer first. Invent. And be patient.

We can improve our relationships with others by leaps and bounds if we become encouragers instead of critics.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

On one of my last days at school, the headmaster said I would either end up in prison or become a millionaire. That was quite a startling prediction, but in some respects, he was right on both counts!

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.

When I think of the love I feel for each member of our family, I sense, to a slight degree, the love that our Heavenly Father bears for His children.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

Of course, I do everything for money.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.

Success is not a stop sign.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

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.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

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

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Not cohabitation but consensus constitutes marriage.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.