It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it’s absolutely true.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

There’s only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I’ll get married again.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

If women were particular about men’s characters, they would never get married at all.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

Money can’t buy life.

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things in the world. It is.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I feel matured in a way that I’m happy about. I’m at this other stage in my life – and it’s not a bad thing at all.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

Christmas time! That man must be a misanthrope indeed, in whose breast something like a jovial feeling is not roused – in whose mind some pleasant associations are not awakened – by the recurrence of Christmas.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

I don’t have many sad days.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means – either may do – the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

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.

People in Latin America… love America from afar and emulate America in some ways but also hate a lot of things that America does to them.

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

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

But with Christ, we have access in a one-to-one relationship, for, as in the Old Testament, it was more one of worship and awe, a vertical relationship. The New Testament, on the other hand, we look across at a Jesus who looks familiar, horizontal. The combination is what makes the Cross.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me.

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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

I always wanted a great love affair: something that feels big and full, really honest, and enough. No moment should feel slight, false, or a little off. For me, it had to be everything.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Cause and effect are two sides of one fact.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

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

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.