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

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives‘ mouths.

My partner Donald Trump says that married couples should always have a prenuptial agreement. True, a prenuptial is important if one partner is much richer than the other before marriage, but Kim and I don’t have one.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.

The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

But the relationship of morality and power is a very subtle one. Because ultimately power without morality is no longer power.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

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.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

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

Money ain’t everything.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

I’ve done everything every fat person ever has. I’ve tried every diet.

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.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

I don’t think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

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

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

My wife and I love each other very much.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it’s the real test of your character and of your faith to say, ‚Things are not going our way, but I’m still being good to people; I’m still attending church; I still have a good attitude.‘

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

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people’s happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

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

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.

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

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

My husband says I look like a Q-tip.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

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.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It’s like my friend, almost.

I married my best friend that happens to be a girl.