What we need to understand is that when traditions become laws, rules, obligations and expectations others put on us that we don’t want to fulfill, then they lose real meaning and steal the joy from our lives. And if we’re too religious, we won’t be able to be led by the Holy Spirit and enjoy an intimate relationship with Him.

In Puerto Rico we dance to everything.

Each time we cooperate with God, we take one more giant step forward. Because when God asks us to change, it means that He always has something better to give us – more freedom, greater joy, and greater blessings.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

I love stuff from the Holy Land. It makes me feel blessed.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I’m not trying to follow a set of rules and stuff. I’m just living my life.

I think ABBA have a pure joy to their music and that’s what makes them extraordinary.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

There’s strong data that, within companies, the No. 1 reason for ethical violations is the pressure to meet expectations, sometimes unrealistic expectations.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

As you pray for the Holy Spirit to make you aware of thoughts that come into your mind that don’t line up with God’s Word, you’ll begin to realize when those thoughts come and you can renew your mind with the Word.

Yes, I’m always – I’m always surprised when you make a film and you live with it a while and you put it out, you never dream that anybody is ever going to want to really see it.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

Behold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

I’m from the generation that had the boys‘ door and the girls‘ door when you went to school, and you got in big trouble if you went in the wrong one.

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.

I always wished for this, but it’s almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

Why don’t Jews drink? It interferes with their suffering.

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.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

I believe enlightenment or revelation comes in daily life. I look for joy, the peace of action. You need action. I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

Sometimes when you’ve had a long series of disappointing things happen, you can get into the very bad habit of just expecting more of what you’ve already had.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

In time of war the laws are silent.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It clears the head.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God’s Will, united in spirit and in aim.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

Lawless are they that make their wills their law.

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

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

I’m not who people expect me to be. I’m not Henry Kissinger.

I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.

The Internet offers opportunities that are more unique than ever before. With TV, I know I’m making 22 minutes; I know there’s a commercial in the middle. With the Internet, no one knows anything. No rules.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

The revealed Word awakened me, but it was the preached Word that saved me, and I must ever attach peculiar value to the hearing of the truth, for by it I received the joy and peace in which my soul delights.

Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster.

The rules are there for a reason.

As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, ‚I don’t want to become like Bruce Lee’s son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.‘ I just think my son is too lazy.

Man’s real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don’t want to go there.

Where there is a free government, and the people make their own laws by their representatives, I see no injustice in their obliging one another to take their own paper money.

The magistrates are the ministers for the laws, the judges their interpreters, the rest of us are servants of the law, that we all may be free.

For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.

Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.