We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

What I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.

If I’m not in love, if I’m not with a long-term companion, I cannot be happy.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

I love designing at the moment, I’m so happy with my work.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

A lot of times, you could play me just the laughs from my set, and I could tell you, from the laugh, what the joke was. Because they match.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active – not more happy – nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.

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.

He who is contented is rich.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We’re inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, ‚Gimme, gimme, gimme,‘ you will always be in short supply.

The choicest pleasures of life lie within the ring of moderation.

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Fashion is always of the time in which you live. It is not something standing alone. But the grand problem, the most important problem, is to rejeuvenate women. To make women look young. Then their outlook changes. They feel more joyous.

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.

It is with your aid, as the people, that I think we shall be able to preserve – not the country, for the country will preserve itself, but the institutions of the country – those institutions which have made us free, intelligent and happy – the most free, the most intelligent, and the happiest people on the globe.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

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.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one’s wife happy. First, let her think she’s having her own way. And second, let her have it.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

I was born poor and without religion, under a happy sky, feeling harmony, not hostility, in nature. I began not by feeling torn, but in plenitude.

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people’s happiness.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

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

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

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Money ain’t everything.

Italy, and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.

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.

Love is the most powerful thing in the world, and you know, what love brings is joy.

I think that success is having fun.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers laugh, and Make people talk like you because it’s so much fun.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

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

Our Heavenly Father loves you. He has created you to be successful and to have joy.

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.

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

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.