The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people’s kids than I did my own.

Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.

There’s nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.

A good conscience is a continual Christmas.

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

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.

The number, the industry, and the morality of the priesthood, and the devotion of the people have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the state.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

If I’d married someone in show business, there’d be too much competition.

Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it’s a subject below their social standing.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.

If workers are more insecure, that’s very ‚healthy‘ for the society, because if workers are insecure, they won’t ask for wages, they won’t go on strike, they won’t call for benefits; they’ll serve the masters gladly and passively. And that’s optimal for corporations‘ economic health.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

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.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

I’d love to date somebody cool, fun, funny.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that’s not so bad; but New York City?

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

As long as you know men are like children, you know everything!

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Great loves too must be endured.

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

In a democracy, the well-being, individuality and happiness of every citizen is important for the overall prosperity, peace and happiness of the nation.

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.

There are no rules when it comes to love.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

Love possesses not nor will it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

I can’t relate to lazy people. We don’t speak the same language. I don’t understand you. I don’t want to understand you.

The drama and the trauma of the relationship you have when you’re 16 can mirror the one you have when you’re 26. Life repeats itself.

I’ve… been accused of being involved with every man I’m ever seen with or worked with. Maybe I have, maybe I ain’t. I never tell if I have.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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.