I visited those friends who'd just had a baby and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house and I burst with happiness. And in their minds they were in this terrible domestic rut.
Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
When Kate was born she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy she's thriving she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.
I don't like Paris so much and it's only eight shows. I mean don't tell them that of course. But everyone always thinks they're so important. And I'm sure they are. But to me my happiness is more important.
The pop musicians often leave meaning in the dust and substitute it for cartoons. The deeper artists - the grunge artists in the world and the emoticon people - tend to leave all of the happiness out of life like it just doesn't exist.
There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.
Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy but how much you enjoy what you have.
History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth more industry more happiness more human enlightenment than from any other way.
I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.
Seek happiness for its own sake and you will not find it seek for duty and happiness will follow as the shadow comes with the sunshine.
But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
I love acting. It's my playground it let's me explore. But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.
The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes the big ones don't really mean anything.
The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.
Happiness I do not know where to turn to discover you on earth in the air or the sky yet I know you exist and are no futile dream.
The slave may be happy but happiness is not enough.