O bom humor espalha mais felicidade que todas as riquezas do mundo. Vem do hábito de olhar para as coisas com esperança e de esperar o melhor e não o pior.

Quase sempre a maior ou menor felicidade depende do grau de decisão de ser feliz.

“O dia mais mal gasto de todos é aquele em que não nos rimos.”

“A felicidade é um fruto que se colhe da felicidade que se semeia.”

“Sofremos demasiado pelo pouco que nos falta e alegramo-nos pouco pelo muito que temos…”

Só há felicidade se não exigirmos nada do amanhã e aceitarmos do hoje, com gratidão, o que nos trouxer. A hora mágica chega sempre.

A felicidade não é uma estação de chegada, é uma forma de viajar.

Não existe um caminho para a felicidade. A felicidade é o caminho.

O maior problema e o único que nos deve preocupar é vivermos felizes

Ser feliz sem motivo é a mais autêntica forma de felicidade.

Por cada minuto que nos zangamos, perdemos 60 segundos de felicidade.

A felicidade não é algo que apareça pronto a consumir. Esta vem a partir das nossas próprias acções.

A felicidade não se encontra nos bens exteriores.

Não busque a felicidade fora, mas sim dentro de você, caso contrário nunca a encontrará.

Muitas pessoas perdem as pequenas alegrias enquanto aguardam a grande felicidade.

Não há que ter vergonha de preferir a felicidade.

A felicidade é composta de pequenos prazeres.

Não devemos permitir que alguém saia da nossa presença sem se sentir melhor e mais feliz.

Não há satisfação maior do que aquela que sentimos quando proporcionamos alegria aos outros.

Tenho certeza de que se eu sorrisse menos teria menos amigos.

A alegria de fazer o bem é a única felicidade verdadeira.

A nossa felicidade será naturalmente proporcional em relação à felicidade que fizermos para os outros.

A felicidade é um bem que se multiplica ao ser dividido.

O segredo da felicidade é encontrar a nossa alegria na alegria dos outros.

Para ser feliz, é necessário pensar na felicidade de um outro.

I love writing songs. I'm a songwriter.

I really don't sit here and dream what life in the White House will be like. I just can't go beyond the point when the people go to the ballot box with all that power.

I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.

One of the things about working on stage - actually, about working in show business, that is - is that it's such a collaborative effort. I suppose that everything in life is - every endeavor where people are able to be successful.

Fiction is like a spiders web attached ever so slightly perhaps but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.

A place that doesn't welcome tourists, that's really difficult and off the map, is a place I want to see.

I have perfected the art of putting my feet on my husband's lap during awards ceremonies so he can rub them.

To date, embryonic stem cell research has not produced a single medical treatment, where ethical, adult stem cell research has produced some 67 medical miracles.

My whole life I've hated to lose, no doubt about it. I've been guilty of that since I was 6 years old, at camp. I have always played to win. That's who I am. But I never hurt anybody. The problem is when you're perceived as being too aggressive where you hurt somebody or do something improper.

Like a lot of people, I've got a self-loathing streak that's alive and well. It acts as a de facto engine when I'm working, but it also has its extraordinary pitfalls, too.

There's always a theme I'm drawn to, that we humans are not good or bad. We're all a mixture of both. We can have great compassion or commit great violence.

When I write something, I want the best director to direct it. And that's not going to be me. So when David Fincher comes along and wants to direct 'The Social Network,' when Bennett Miller comes along and wants to direct 'Moneyball,' or when Danny Boyle wants to direct 'Jobs'? Hallelujah. I want them directing it.

As soon as you think you can do whatever you want and you have whatever great professional in the world waiting to work with you, then you are sunk.

You are not the troubles that happen to you. You are magnificence unfolding. Allow it to happen.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

The evolution of social media into a robust mechanism for social transformation is already visible. Despite many adamant critics who insist that tools like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are little more than faddish distractions useful only to exchange trivial information, these critics are being proven wrong time and again.

True, the lion is a mighty, noble animal, but it is an animal nevertheless!

I don't really say too much to my parents. If they ask me to do something I just do it and get it out of the way.

Mama was my greatest teacher a teacher of compassion love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower then my mother is that sweet flower of love.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Wherever you live on this earth, and whatever your life's situation may be, I testify to you that the gospel of Jesus Christ has the divine power to lift you to great heights from what appears at times to be an unbearable burden or weakness.

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness.

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.

One of the best things my mother passed on to me was being an efficient multitasker.