The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

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.

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not.

We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

So, I’m lying on the couch and Laura walks in and I say, ‚Free at last,‘ and she says ‚You’re free all right, you’re free to do the dishes.‘ So I say, ‚You’re talking to the former president, baby,‘ and she said, ‚consider this your new domestic policy agenda.‘

When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out.

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Put it this way: If I asked, ‚How’s business?‘ and you say, ‚Boomin‘ or ‚Amazing,‘ I already know the answer.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

I do sometimes look back at things I’ve written in the past, and think, ‚I just don’t remember being the person who wrote that.‘

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

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

If I’m in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person’s side of the case at least as well as they could. One has to be able to say that in any well-conducted argument.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings – words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

If you can’t convince them, confuse them.

People are very reluctant to talk about their private lives but then you go to the internet and they’re much more open.

I always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.

I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Our most tragic error may have been our inability to establish a rapport and a confidence with the press and television with the communication media. I don’t think the press has understood me.

There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

You have to listen very carefully and tell the truth if you are going to get a paranoid person to open up to you.

Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

Throughout my career, I fed off the fuel of people not being able to understand me.

Saying nothing… sometimes says the most.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Everybody, to some extent, manipulates. Even children learn to cry when they want something. There are all kinds of subtle things we do to get others to follow our lead, not bother us, and so on.

If you want what you’re saying heard, then take your time and say it so that the listener will actually hear it. You might save somebody’s life. Your own, first.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

There was one incident at a movie theater where my girl got mad at these guys who were talking behind us. I never looked back there, but she was like, ‚Will you all just shut up!‘ And I just got up and moved three rows in front. She was like, ‚What are you doing?!‘ I was like, ‚You better get up here! I don’t play the fighting games.‘

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise the bleeding will not end.

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter – ‚tis the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

I will listen to anyone’s convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself.

To me, it’s OK to have differences. But we don’t have to be mad about it. You know? And I think that’s where sometimes we get so passionate that we – you know, it turns into anger.

He that speaks much, is much mistaken.

The issues a president faces are not black and white, and cannot be boiled down into 140 characters. Because when you have the nuclear codes at your fingertips and the military at your command, you can’t make snap decisions. You can’t have a thin skin or the tendency to lash out.

A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

I am happy and I’m single.