In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Life must be lived as play.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

I believe you never get tired by doing work. You get tired when you don’t work. When you clean your house, you don’t get tired; it gives you satisfaction.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.

Obedience to God is the pathway to the life you really want to live.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, ‚I used everything you gave me‘.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

In my later years, I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I’ve worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

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.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

It’s a lot of fun to fight.

I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona – no lime. If the phone rings, I won’t answer until I’m done.

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

A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

I think I don’t take myself too seriously. You know as far as, it’s a fun life. I take my music serious, but I like to have fun.

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.

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

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

The mere brute pleasure of reading the sort of pleasure a cow must have in grazing.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live.

Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

Understanding science and pushing the boundaries of science is what makes me immensely satisfied.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

We are all pleased when our names are pronounced and spelled correctly.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

I’m interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it’s quite a satisfying thing to do, isn’t it?