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.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Home, more than anything, means warmth and bed.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

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.

Comedy Central was a great network, but ‚Chappelle’s Show‘ took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the ‚Chappelle‘ reruns. For BET, the ‚Real Husbands of Hollywood‘ has that same potential.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.

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.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, ‚I don’t have time.‘ But that’s the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

I listen to these comparisons with Cristiano Ronaldo, I’ll be happy and then forget it in five seconds.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

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.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

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.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.

One of the things I love most about being at home is that I’m comfortable there. And since we are the home of Christ, we need to make sure He’s comfortable in us.

In my own life I know that my state of cheerfulness is a reliable gauge of my level of spiritual enlightenment at that moment. The more cheerful, happy, contented, and satisfied I am feeling, the more aware I am of my deep connection to Spirit.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations.

Until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire, you will be neither successful nor happy.

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.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

If we live a self-directed, self-motivated, self-centered life, always needing to get our own way, then we’re going to be miserable. In fact, many times we believe it’s our problems that are making us unhappy when, in reality, it’s because we’re focused on ourselves!

Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.

There are folks who now know black families – like the Johnsons on ‚Black-ish‘ or the folks on ‚Modern Family.‘ They become part of who you are. You share their pains. You understand their fears. They make you laugh, and they change how you see the world.

By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.

He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

I don’t like celebrity programmes – but I do like programmes about how ideas are formed and evolve.

Money can’t buy life.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

Making your dad happy is – especially for an Italian Catholic girl, I’ll tell you – it feels really good.

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

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

Many of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

I only want my work to make people happy.