the way to happiness- keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

Purpose and pleasure are two cornerstones of happiness

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job.Forget about the thorns - the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy your life.

One of the most tragic things I know about the human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Life is like a roller-coaster with highs and lows. So quit complaining about it and enjoy the ride !!

An attitude of positive expectation is the mark of superior personality

Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages alchemy formed a bridge on the one hand into the past to Gnosticism and on the other into the future to the modern psychology of the unconscious.

The silence in the morning holds lots of expectations and is more hopeful than the silence at night.

Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

It couldn't sound like a dog, because K9 isn't a dog, but I made it sound as mechanical as possible.

I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more.

It would be great to be 105 and still making films.

Academics are becoming much more entrepreneurial these days.

For me, it's a purity thing about the joke itself. It's a test of a joke whether or not you do it completely clean and it works. If it does, then that's a legitimate item you have there. For me, it's nothing to do with finding those words offensive. It's just not what I'm in search of. Do it clean, and you are really earning that laugh.

My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

We haven't had a good energy policy in this country for decades and we're trying to get one.

I feel very lucky.

But, you know, Cronaca isn't more innovative than what comes after.

I've been called the journeyman. It's really more by default than it is by design.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it’s dead for you.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

In some cases, managers and employees have secured pensions beyond their original base salary. It is wrong, the people doing it know it's wrong, and we have to put an end to it.

The problem is we need much more moral content.

I'm a massive fan of Drake, and we walked right past him. He's too cool to be clapping One Direction though.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

I was prepared for the theatre, but not for the nuts and bolts.

You grow up skinny in Canada; in working-class Montreal, you're definitely the underdog.

I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do.