Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

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.

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

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

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 It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor.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.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell; aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Pride is pleasure arising from a man’s thinking too highly of himself.

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.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

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.

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

That’s what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he’s wise.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

To live happily is an inward power of the soul.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

We were born with a capacity to grow, love, marry, and form families.

My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn’t speak a terrible amount, but you could tell there was a ton on his mind – like a quiet acceptance of how life had turned out.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

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

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

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

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

We were at a beach one summer, and I had a bathing suit on. My wife looked at me and said: ‚Boy, you are skinny, aren’t you?‘ I said: ‚Honey, I’d like to remind you that it was minor defects like this that kept me from getting a better wife.‘

Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Marriage is the death of hope.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness – it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

The happiest people I know as a nation are the Burmese; their brightness and cheeriness are proverbial. Kindness to animals is one of their greatest ‚weaknesses‘; no Burmese will kill an animal, even if it is to put it out of pain.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

I was saluted by Alex Ferguson when I was subbed and that made me very happy.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

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

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.