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

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I’m always, like, just in it. It’s like, ‚Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I’m so happy.‘

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

A man’s as miserable as he thinks he is.

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

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

We have a great group of guys that really sacrifice every night, care about each other, and try to play the right away.

If we depend for our happiness on another, on society or on environment, they become essential to us; we cling to them, and any alteration of these we violently oppose because we depend upon them for our psychological security and comfort.

Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.

Your joy comes from how you think, the choices that we make in life.

Only Americans can hurt America.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike.

I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana’s loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

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

It’s in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It’s not in happiness. It’s not in impulsive pleasure.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

He who is contented is rich.

My whole life and my whole career, even through my music, I tell people: let’s unify; let’s show more love.

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

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

Life is better when people are working, happy, and spending money.

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

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

All these walls that keep us from loving each other as one family or one race – racism, religion, where we grew up, whatever, class, socioeconomic – what makes us be so selfish and prideful, what keeps us from wanting to help the next man, what makes us be so focused on a personal legacy as opposed to the entire legacy of a race.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

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.

In God’s family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Money ain’t everything.

Maybe every city has a unique sensibility, but we don’t have names for what they are or haven’t identified them all. We can’t pinpoint exactly what makes each city’s people unique yet.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we would all do more to put the fire out. We’re standing around with watering cans, when what we really need is the fire brigade.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

When you work you are a flute through whose heart the whispering of the hours turns to music. Which of you would be a reed, dumb and silent, when all else sings together in unison?

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

It isn’t necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

I feel a distaste for hunting, first because of a kind of Buddhist respect for the unity and sacredness of all life, and also because the pursuit of a hare or chamois strikes me as a kind of ‚escape of energy,‘ that is, the expenditure of our effort in an illusory end, one devoid of profit.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

The answer to the problem of inequality is for the people who are fortunate enough to either have been gifted or deserved more to do everything they can to make the communities around them as strong as they possibly can.

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

Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Every man has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

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

He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.