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

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.

Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

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.

I don’t call myself a Buddhist. I’m a free spirit. I believe I’m here on earth to admire and enjoy it; that’s my religion.

I hope the fans have enjoyed listening as much as I’ve enjoyed doing the games. I don’t ever go to the park where I don’t have a good day. I don’t like losing. But I don’t think I ever go to the park where I have a bad day. I don’t think once.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

I don’t have many sad days.

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing walking and sitting meditation.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it’s the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It’s probably the most important thing in a person.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

Engineering didn’t take to me. And what saved me and kept me in college was I ran into ROTC cadets who were in a fraternity called The Pershing Rifles. And I found my place. I found discipline. I found structure. I found people that were like me and I liked.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I am happy and proud to play for my country and my club Mohun Bagan.

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

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.

If you can’t move and talk to people that you see, it’s not really my scene.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

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.

Many people tell me that they don ‚t know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That’s good.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

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.

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.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

First and foremost comes my family and my life with Brad. We have so much joy in raising our children and teaching them about the world that nothing really compares to that.

It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.

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.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

‚Happiness‘ is a pointless goal.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Movies are fun, but they are no cure for cancer.

Bread without flesh is a good diet, as on many botanical excursions I have proved. Tea also may easily be ignored. Just bread and water and delightful toil is all I need – not unreasonably much, yet one ought to be trained and tempered to enjoy life in these brave wilds in full independence of any particular kind of nourishment.

I was at a New Year’s Eve party, and someone asked me how was my year, and I said, ‚I honestly think 2011 was the best year of my entire life,‘ and I actually meant it.