There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Sooner or later we’re all someone’s dog.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey ‚people.‘ People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war… Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

It’s hard for me to grasp the concept of somebody being nervous when I’m talking to them.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

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

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‚What are you doing for others?‘

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Man is not a machine that can be remodelled for quite other purposes as occasion demands, in the hope that it will go on functioning as regularly as before but in a quite different way. He carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.

We all have experiences in our lives that change us, and we all learn from people, like my dad, but at the end of the day, it’s only us. And we’re only responsible to make ourselves happy.

Social media is called social media for a reason. It lends itself to sharing rather than horn-tooting.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.

People should pursue what they’re passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

For a dinner date, I eat light all day to save room, then I go all in: I choose this meal and this order, and I choose you, the person across from me, to share it with. There’s a beautiful intimacy in a meal like that.

The best workers, like the happiest livers, look upon their work as a kind of game: the harder they play the more enjoyable it becomes.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

Where thou art, that is home.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they’re not on your road doesn’t mean they’ve gotten lost.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

You can be happy where you are.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

We do not judge the people we love.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

You can’t have it all all at once. Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all, but in given periods in time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Every time I see documentaries or infomercials about little kids with cancer, I just freak out. It affects me on the highest emotional level… Anytime I think about it, it makes me sadder than anything I can think of.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.