When the kids are laughing in the audience, I tear up, I’m so happy I did a nice thing.

Smiles are the language of love.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

I think that success is having fun.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‚You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.‘

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.

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

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

We need to, you know, restore people. We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

The American people have not become heartless.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It’s one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Anything I’ve ever said, I certainly was feeling at the time.

It’s amazing if you just listen to people. They tell you all the time things that you can do for them, without even realizing what they’re doing. I’ve learned to take notice of those things and if it’s something that I feel God wants me to do, then I try to do that to add joy to their life.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Life well spent is long.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

The kids never listen to you, especially the youngest ones.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it!

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn’t make me feel good at all.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

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.

He that does good to another does good also to himself.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

I think that if all kids aspire to reach a point where they could feed themselves and a few of their friends, this would be good for the world surely.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.