The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

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

When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn’t arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I’m going to be happy in it.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

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

We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.

It is important to remember yourself.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

Pound’s crazy. All poets are. They have to be. You don’t put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

I believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

My head’s never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch ‚CSI‘ or ‚Law & Order,‘ where I have to follow the crime. If I can’t turn my head off during that, I know I’ve really got a problem.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

I like to make people feel happy and superior in their reaction towards my appearance.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I don’t like being alone.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

I do suffer from depression, I suppose. Which isn’t that unusual. You know, a lot of people do.

My body is weird. I wake up when the sun comes up, and it’s hard for me to go to sleep. My thoughts just take over.

Do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the day’s own trouble be sufficient for the day.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.

One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can’t swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it’s what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance.

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the reason I’m upset. I get home and my son is smiling or he comes running to me. It has just made me grow as an individual and grow as a man.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

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

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

When you get angry, your options narrow.

Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.

If my films make one more person miserable, I’ll feel I have done my job.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Money ain’t everything.

When dealing with the insane, the best method is to pretend to be sane.

I don’t race cars.

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Even paranoids have real enemies.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I look like a casual, laid-back guy, but it’s like a circus in my head.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

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

I wouldn’t say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I’d like my fear emotion to be less because it’s very distracting and fries my nervous system.

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

I only want my work to make people happy.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

I love to pop up at the movie theaters. I love to treat the people who are there.