You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.
If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.
A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Happiness... it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort.
God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.
Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy
The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.
