There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

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.

No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do – eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other… and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!

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.

I play piano every day. I enjoy that.

Yes, it is one of my ultimate aims – it is the ultimate sense of football: to make the people happy, to let them live some emotions that you usually can’t get.

There’s not much time to unwind, but you know what, it’s because I love what I do. I look forward to the season. I look forward to playing games. It doesn’t ever feel like work.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I’m definitely looking forward to the day when I stop working – if I ever stop working. I like the idea of keeling over in my tomato vines in Sardinia or northern Italy.

I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go – that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

My family is very good about visiting me, and other friends as well.

We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

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

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

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

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

I am happy and I’m single.

I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I’ll leave those things to the men.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

However happy people say they are, nobody is satisfied: we always have to be with the prettiest woman, buy a bigger house, change cars, desire what we do not have.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

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

This is an elegant hotel! Room service has an unlisted number.

I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any.

My brain and body and nervous system, they see a plane ride, a long plane trip, as an opportunity to sleep with nothing coming in, nothing to do. I just go offline the minute I’m on the plane.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

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

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

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

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

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.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Have fun in your command. Don’t always run at a breakneck pace. Take leave when you’ve earned it, spend time with your families.

My mom and my dad were both very sociable, meeting lots of interesting people.

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

I have no trouble sleeping.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.