It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

One of the things I’ve told men over and over and over and over is if you’re being rejected by all the women that you approach, it’s not the women!

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.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

One of life’s terrible truths is that women like guys who seem to know what they’re doing.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

Know your worth! People always act like they’re doing more for you than you’re doing for them.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

So live with men as if God saw you and speak to God, as if men heard you.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

I think there’s every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

Against eternal injustice, man must assert justice, and to protest against the universe of grief, he must create happiness.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

My greatest blessing has been the birth of my son. My next greatest blessing has been my ability to turn people into children of mine.

Men’s vows are women’s traitors!

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn’t take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

I’m just a friendly person; that runs in my family.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I am at peace with God. My conflict is with Man.

The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It’s inflammatory.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

I don’t eat with beautiful women alone.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

In my house I’m the boss, my wife is just the decision maker.

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

Love is an interesting thing.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

The mind of a 19-year-old is very different from the mind of a 26-year-old. You grow. You get into better relationships. You experience more, meet more people, better people. But when you’re in a dark hole at an earlier point in your life – you write about the mindset you’re in at that moment.

I used to tell my husband that, if he could make me ‚understand‘ something, it would be clear to all the other people in the country.

If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you.

Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others.

Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

Love is a serious mental disease.

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.