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

Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

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

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

I’m really happy and had such an amazing time performing at Super Bowl – wish I could relive it all over again.

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

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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

People – especially white people – they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.

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

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

When one’s expectations are reduced to zero, one really appreciates everything one does have.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

I’m not a big believer in trying to jam stuff down somebody’s throat: ‚You’re going to do it my way.‘ I’d rather show by example and live my life and have people say, ‚You know what, I want to live like Joel has. He’s got peace and joy, and he seems content.‘

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there’s time, the Bastard Time.

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.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

The prospect of music being detachable from time and place meant that one could start to think of music as a part of one’s furniture.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

I’m at peace with what I’m doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

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.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

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.

Myths can’t be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.

Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.

The philosophical question before us is, when we make an observation of our track in the past, does the result of our observation become real in the same sense that the final state would be defined if an outside observer were to make the observation?

The future will be better tomorrow.

I really didn’t consider myself happy or unhappy.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it’s been tested by recession and all manner of challenges – I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.

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.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.