The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

Like my friend Warren Buffett, I feel particularly lucky to do something every day that I love to do. He calls it ‚tap-dancing to work.‘

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

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

The deepest desire of the human spirit is to be acknowledged.

To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

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

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

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

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

God wants us to prosper financially, to have plenty of money, to fulfill the destiny He has laid out for us.

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

It is not living that matters, but living rightly.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

I am happy and I’m single.

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

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.

The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

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.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

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

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.

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.

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

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

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

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.

Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.