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

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

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: ‚We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.‘

Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it.

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.

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 happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

My parents were of the generation who thought they were the children of a free Czechoslovakia, the only democracy in central Europe.

I joyfully hasten to meet death. If it come before I have had opportunity to develop all my artistic faculties, it will come, my hard fate notwithstanding, too soon, and I should probably wish it later – yet even then I shall be happy, for will it not deliver me from a state of endless suffering?

I am just happy to be part of the Nike family.

I’m not interested in more political or cultural combat.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.

Whatever that means, however you got on that mountain, why not try to climb it? And do it in your own way.

I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.

Everyone is different. Everyone has different teams they’ve played on, coaches they’ve played for.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

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

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

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

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

When I joined the freedom movement in Mississippi in my early 20s, it was to come to the aid of sharecroppers, like my parents, who had been thrown off the land they’d always known – the plantations – because they attempted to exercise their ‚democratic‘ right to vote.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

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

You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

America is a Nation with a mission – and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace – a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music – which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there’s no dream that’s too big.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

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.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.

Sometimes I just sit still and enjoy God’s presence.

The man who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Something’s very wrong with a nation that would rather spend money on war than take care of its children.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.