We all have to live together, so we might as well live together happily.

People who bowl vote. Bowlers are not the cultural elite.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Me don’t dip on nobody’s side. Me don’t dip on the black man’s side, not the white man’s side. Me dip on God’s side, the one who create me and cause me to come from black and white.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Use, do not abuse… neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

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.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

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.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.

I’m happiest with my family around me.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Fun is good.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.

I am very happy playing and showing off my talent on the cricket field and have no plans to enter Bollywood.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I do not expect the Union to be dissolved – I do not expect the house to fall – but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

Life guided me to being a bodyguard, protecting people, then in the movies, so I’m happy with everything because basically all I ever wanted to do was be a good son and take care of my mother.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

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

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife; he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

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

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

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

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Our pleasures were simple – they included survival.

In a long meter hymn, a singer – they call it ‚lays out a line.‘ And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can’t wedge a pin between it.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

Peace begins with a smile.

The knowledge that we have brother scouts working in the same uniform, to the same ends, in the same way, in all corners of the Empire, cannot but make scouts proud of their brotherhood, and cannot fail to bring them into closer sympathy.

We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

It seems like a lot of people seek their peace in things. And most of us are not even satisfied with the things we have… we always want more.

Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

A woman’s heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.