There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven.

What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of ‚CSI‘ and ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ episodes with pints of ice cream.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased.

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature’s way.

As a sportsperson, the best thing is people recognising you and loving you for what you do. For me, glamour is 100 people in the hotel feeling happy to see you.

Money ain’t everything.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Most people would assume my business success, and the wealth that comes with it, have brought me happiness. But I know I am successful, wealthy, and connected because I am happy.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

Maria is the best reason to come home.

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

Eternal principles that govern happiness apply equally to all.

True happiness is… to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

I can say I’d honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I’ve written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

The movement of search can only be from the known to the known, and all that the mind can do is to be aware that this movement will never uncover the unknown. Any movement on the part of the known is still within the field of the known.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

It’s a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It’s an interesting place to be. I recommend it.

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

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

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.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

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

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

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.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

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

The sky is the part of creation in which nature has done for the sake of pleasing man.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I want to give people a taste of the Caribbean, and show them the fun side of me.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I’ve always been very happy. I’ve always been easy going and I’ve always been very encouraging; it’s just my personality.

I am against nature. I don’t dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can’t touch with decay.

The longer I live, the more I feel that true repose consists in ‚renouncing‘ one’s own self, by which I mean making up one’s mind to admit that there is no importance whatever in being ‚happy‘ or ‚unhappy‘ in the usual meaning of the words.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don’t know why he’s with me. I don’t know whether I’m good enough. But if I make him happy, then I’m everything I want to be.