Most women in my family start to get sick and start dying in their 40s, and I am going to be very happy to become 50 and 60. I love getting older.

By taking a second wife he pays the highest compliment to the first, by showing that she made him so happy as a married man, that he wishes to be so a second time.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Money ain’t everything.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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

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

I was a journeyman chef of middling abilities. Whatever authority I have as a commenter on this world comes from the sheer weight of 28 years in the business. I kicked around for 28 years and came out the other end alive and able to form a sentence.

I criticize by creation – not by finding fault.

I always wanted a family.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

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.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

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.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

Fortunately for a quarterback, you can play for a long time because you don’t get hit very often.

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

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way, and the other is to let her have it.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

The soul is healed by being with children.

My – both my sisters died with pancreatic cancer. My brother died with pancreatic cancer. My daddy died of pancreatic cancer. My mother died with breast cancer.

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.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

Every woman is different when they go through menopause, and… I didn’t know emotionally how I would feel.

I’m proud to be an actor. See, as an actor, you live longer. Football players, the brain and all that stuff, ooh-eee, that’s not good.

The talent for being happy is appreciating and liking what you have, instead of what you don’t have.

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.