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

It is wonderful to have someone praise you, to be desired.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

I never think about myself as an artist working in this time. I think about it in macro.

A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend’s griefs, but if he sees him honored and esteemed, he is apt to regard him as a rival and does not so readily rejoice with him. This ought not to be; without effort, we ought to be happy in our brother’s happiness.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

I am not a self-help writer. I am a self-problem writer. When people read my books, I provoke some things. I cannot justify my work. I do my work; it is up to them to classify it, to judge.

Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

The thing I want more than anything else? I want to have children. I used to feel for every child I had, I would adopt another.

Fame doesn’t fulfill you. It warms you a bit, but that warmth is temporary.

Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Marriage is the most wonderful thing ever.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

I don’t know what acting is, but I enjoy it.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

I think the foundation of everything in my life is wonder.

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

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else’s head instead of with one’s own.

We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

God didn’t make me to make movies, flex muscles, buy gold. What you love the most becomes your God… If I never make another dollar, my life is complete.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

I need more sex, OK? Before I die I wanna taste everyone in the world.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

An empowered organisation is one in which individuals have the knowledge, skill, desire, and opportunity to personally succeed in a way that leads to collective organisational success.

Most people are happy being average. Most are happy being faceless in a sea of faces.

Obama’s not Jesus. He can’t walk on water.

I do things I love doing. Sometimes that is maybe going out to have a drink with friends, going out partying or whatever.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

I liked his ability to deal with a lot of the negativity that surrounded him. Even though he was in a world that he didn’t want to be in, he still saw the bigger picture.

Everything is perfect in the universe – even your desire to improve it.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.