The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

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.

First thing I do in the morning, after I have my breakfast and do my spiritual work, is put on my makeup and fix my hair, and I can do my makeup in 15 minutes.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

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.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

I don’t think I’m bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

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

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.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

I thought it completely absurd to mention my name in the same breath as the presidency.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

I always wanted a family.

Even when a person has all of life’s comforts – good food, good shelter, a companion – he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

When you focus on being a blessing, God makes sure that you are always blessed in abundance.

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

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.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

I always kind of see how I want things to be better, and I’m generally not happy with how things are or the level of service that we’re providing for people or the quality of the teams that we built. But if you look at this objectively, we’re doing so well on so many of these things. I think it’s important to have gratitude for that.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

I’m super self-critical, which I think is good, because then I get exactly what I want. I’m critical of other people, too – I try not to be, though.

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

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

I wish I knew why I am so anguished.

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.‘

Every man is his own hell.

Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe.

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

As a kid, I’d go into the bathroom when I was having a tantrum. I’d be in the bathroom crying, studying myself in the mirror. I was preparing for future roles.

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

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

If you give, you will be blessed.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Life is too short not to celebrate nice moments!

I love making people laugh. And I love laughing.

There are some days when I think I’m going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The goal for me is always to have the opportunity to work in different genres. This is a great and exciting time in my career, where I can have the opportunity to work in different genres, and also I recognize there’s not a lot of actors who have that opportunity and I’m grateful for it.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.