The soul is healed by being with children.

When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

As a father, safety is always a top of mind issue for me.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

I think about my own sons and my own daughters, and I’m sure that many parents are concerned about what their children are exposed to.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

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

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

I wish I had been home more when the children were growing up. I missed a lot.

I’m so happy because today I found my friends – they’re in my head.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

It’s been proven by quite a few studies that plants are good for our psychological development. If you green an area, the rate of crime goes down. Torture victims begin to recover when they spend time outside in a garden with flowers. So we need them, in some deep psychological sense, which I don’t suppose anybody really understands yet.

I had no bad moment in my relationship with Dortmund. Not one second.

All things considered, there’s nobody better for children than parents.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

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

As the father of eight children, I’m quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries – it’s the I that’s in the ever-changing body.

Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

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

We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.

Why should I stop working? If I do, I’ll die and it’ll all be finished.

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.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

There’s a part of you – the born-again part, your spirit – that’s dead to sin. That’s why it bothers you now when you sin. The ‚wilderness‘ part of you – your soul – is your unrenewed mind, out-of-control emotions, and stubborn will.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

I don’t think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

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

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

Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Only God can look at somebody’s heart.

True wealth is not of the pocket, but of the heart and of the mind.

Of all nature’s gifts to the human race, what is sweeter to a man than his children?

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

My family didn’t have a lot of money, so I worked my heart out to get my degrees. But the minute I graduated, suddenly everyone was asking me, ‚Well, when are you going to get married and start having kids?‘ And the truth is I had no idea how I would balance the expected role of wife and mother with a challenging career.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

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

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.