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

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.

Keeping score is for games, not friendships.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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.

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.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

I’ll tell you one thing, since I’m married, single people look absolutely ridiculous to me.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

It may happen sometimes that a long debate becomes the cause of a longer friendship. Commonly, those who dispute with one another at last agree.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

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.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

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

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relationship if it’s a green light.

Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

I have noticed… that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

Single life is so overrated.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

I never had a mother. I suppose a mother is one to whom you hurry when you are troubled.

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

My dad was never married. He was kind of a rolling stone. But he was never disrespectful. At the same time, even though he had women in his life when I was a kid, there wasn’t any consistency.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

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

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

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

I take my kids to school. And if I go to work, I go to work, and they visit me on set. I come home. I have dinner with my family. I have breakfast with my family. I have a very solid, very warm home.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

Brad was a huge surprise to me. I think we were both the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom with Mad.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

I used to take my short stories to girls‘ homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?

I have a very good family. I’m very fortunate to have a very good family. I believe very strongly in the family. It’s one of the things we have in our platform, is to talk about it.

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce.