Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

I used to live with my grandmother. I used to wonder why the other kids in school went home with their mothers and fathers. I wanted to be the guy that got married. I wanted to be the guy with the children and the white picket fence. I never had that.

How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child!

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.

I live in a crazy time.

God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Sometimes, it’s just easier to say yes to that extra snack or dessert, because frankly, it is exhausting to keep saying no. It’s exhausting to plead with our kids to eat just one more bite of vegetables.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Ask an older person you respect to tell you his or her greatest regret.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.

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.

At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

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.

A true man hates no one.

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me – spiritually and financially.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

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

There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

One can know a man from his laugh, and if you like a man’s laugh before you know anything of him, you may confidently say that he is a good man.

When it’s your time, it is your time.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

I hold a lot of things in. I’m always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don’t rage; I usually don’t curse. So for me, it’s a great thing to be able to scream and say whatever I want.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

When I see myself as an old woman, I just think about being happy. And hopefully, I’ll still be fly.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

I never fall in love.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

If a whole bunch of people want to make your life a living hell, they’re gonna do it.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

In football, it’s the job of the player to play, the coach to coach, the official to officiate. Each guy is charged with upholding his end, nothing more. In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life – or at least the way life should be.

Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I’ll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write it. And then sometimes you see a situation and think, ‚I’d like to write about that.‘ Those are two different ways of being approached by a poem, or approaching a poem.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.