People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Happiness is the cessation of suffering.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

What you guys want, I’m for.

Life is a series of commas, not periods.

To love someone means to see him as God intended him.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, ‚I don’t believe they meant to hurt me.‘ ‚Maybe they’re having a bad day or don’t feel well.‘ ‚They probably don’t even realize how they sound.‘

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Wrinkles will only go where the smiles have been.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

Children are all foreigners.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

What’s the use of happiness? It can’t buy you money.

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

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

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

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

However my parents – both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

Sin is geographical.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

Gravitation is, so far, not understandable in terms of other phenomena.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

I’m living a dream I never want to wake up from.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

The American people have not become heartless.

A man who says that no patriot should attack the war until it is over… is saying no good son should warn his mother of a cliff until she has fallen.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

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.

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

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we’d all love one another.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.