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

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

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

People only see what they are prepared to see.

No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

I like to have fun all the time, even if I’m working.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

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

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

I never get too high on my stardom or what I can do.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they’re gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

When I started out, I didn’t have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

We believe that according the name ‚investors‘ to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a ‚romantic.‘

It takes no more time to see the good side of life than it takes to see the bad.

Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

Just as I wanted to outdo everyone when I played, I had to outdo everyone when we were out on the town.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

David Icke reminded me of Malcolm X.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

From my perspective, I absolutely believe in a greater spiritual power, far greater than I am, from which I have derived strength in moments of sadness or fear. That’s what I believe, and it was very, very strong in the forest.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

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

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

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

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

When you’re born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you’re born in America, you get a front row seat.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Without a sense of urgency, desire loses its value.