Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.

While the family is under attack throughout the world, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims, promotes, and protects the truth that the family is central to the Creator’s plan for the eternal destiny of His children.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

My father used to wear the same pants for like a week.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Life well spent is long.

He didn’t come out of my belly, but my God, I’ve made his bones, because I’ve attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I’m so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

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

My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God – I thank God every time I think of it – I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

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.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

Joy is the serious business of Heaven.

She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.

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.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

My next baby will be my new record.

A family shares hardships and a connected history.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious – like, I don’t remember them ever being together.

I remember how my mother would bring us to chapel on Sundays… and my father used to wait outside. One of the things that I picked up from my father and my mother was the sense that religion often gets in the way of God. For me, at least, it got in the way.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

A merry heart doeth good like medicine.

I’m blessed to have such a tight-knit family that we can talk about anything. Whether we talk frequently or not, since we’re on separate ends of the country, there are a lot of moving parts, and we always stay tight and find that center ground that keeps us together.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health. I think that’s what makes a woman complete.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

For me, often, there’s such a cloud of melancholia about knowing I’m going to have to leave my daughter on her own. I don’t know what age that is going to be, thank God. It just doubles me up in grief.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing ‚Maria‘ from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

Heavenly Father loves every one of His children. After all, He is their Father.

I want to – more than anything – to create a moment that people will never forget. Not for me, but for themselves. That’s what I remember about great Super Bowl performances in the past, when you really get lost in the moment with your family.

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

My sisters are stronger and my brother’s bigger than me.