I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

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

All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

Where thou art, that is home.

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

For me, the way I stay consistent is through stand-up comedy.

Being a stand-up is my mission in life; it’s my passion. My ongoing goal is to simply be funny, on my own, in front of a roomful of strangers.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.

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

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

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

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one’s self to do without it.

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

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

Actors know what actors are insecure about – and they’re all insecure.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

Love is trembling happiness.

For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

Dancing in high heels is kind of tough. I learn the dances without the heels, and then we add them. We just practice, and I get used to it. My feet hurt really badly at the end of the shows, but it’s fun. While it’s happening it’s fun. I feel tall.

How can one take delight in the world unless one flees to it for refuge?

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

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.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

In case you’re wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no… people think so because I sound so good.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don’t dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

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

Money ain’t everything.

I played characters with villainous aspect. But out-and-out villain? No.

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

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

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.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

I’ve done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

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.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

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

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

I am confident that when the facts and policies have been examined, when the record of performances have been reviewed, Barack Obama and Joe Biden will once again be elected to lead our beloved country to a better future.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

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.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.