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

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.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

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

I have a good team. It’s good to have a good team.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

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

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.

A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

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.

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

I’m just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.

The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Religion and science are the two conjugated faces or phases of one and the same complete act of knowledge – the only one which can embrace the past and future of evolution and so contemplate, measure and fulfil them.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

You aren’t going to find anybody that’s going to be successful without making a sacrifice and without perseverance.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they have accomplished or are enjoying something. Soon it becomes a reality. Act, look, feel successful, conduct yourself accordingly, and you will be amazed at the positive results.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

The bottom line is that everyone thinks differently.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

Living big and joyful and content is almost always the result of our finding satisfaction in life’s ordinary day-to-day pleasures. And God must be fond of them, too, for He made so many of them for us to enjoy.

Some days I totally appreciate everything that’s happening to me, and some days I feel everyone’s waiting for me to mess up.

I had a lot of success from the start. I never really was tested for long periods of time. I got my first professional job while I was a senior in college. I signed with the William Morris Agency before I graduated.

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

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

This is not a bad life.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

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

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.

I’m mortified to be on the stage, but then again, it’s the only place where I’m happy.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.