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

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

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We all want to win more, but it’s all about being blessed and embracing your blessings. We have life.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It’s amazing. A great honor.

God wants to bless us where we are.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

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

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

I did not, thank the Lord, have to have a hysterectomy.

How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle. It had been far more noble to have died the victim of the enemy than fall a sacrifice to the rage of my friends.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

The child inside of you knows how to take things as they come, how to deal most effectively and happily with everything and everyone it encounters on this planet. If you can recapture that childlike essence of your being, you can stay ‚forever young at heart.‘

To try to become happy is to try to build a machine with no other specifications than it shall run noiselessly.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

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

I didn’t die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn’t survive certain things… people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst… for many reasons, I shouldn’t be here.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Religion was instituted to make us happy in this life and in the other. What must we do to be happy in the life to come? Be just.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

I wake up every day inspiring myself, because God gave me life.

Happiness doesn’t depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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.

Each doctor makes a much, much more important job than I do, but at the end, nobody talks about him. We all know about it, but we don’t really think about it.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

There is no way to happiness – happiness is the way.

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

When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That’s what inspired the ‚Off to the Races‘ melodies. That’s one of the times when you’re feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

I love being on stage, I love being able to tell a story, I love the fact that the audience listens and laughs at it. It makes me happy, and it’s what I live for.

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.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

I understand that being able to appeal to the public and having an amazing sense of humour is not something that comes easy. It’s definitely a gift and for which I’m thankful.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

In my entire life, any time I’ve ever lost something, I’ve gotten something even better going around the next corner. It’s like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they’re going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

You give before you get.

Poetry comes from the highest happiness or the deepest sorrow.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

Our love, our gratitude, our admiration for our men and women in uniform, our veterans and their families – all of that is bigger than any one party or any one election.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.