A amizade desenvolve a felicidade e reduz o sofrimento, duplicando a nossa alegria e dividindo a nossa dor. 

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

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

Saber encontrar a alegria na alegria dos outros, é o segredo da felicidade. 

A amizade é uma predisposição recíproca que torna dois seres igualmente ciosos da felicidade um do outro. 

Felicidade é a certeza de que a nossa vida não está se passando inutilmente. 

É muito melhor viver sem felicidade do que sem amor. 

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

A nossa felicidade depende mais do que temos nas nossas cabeças, do que nos nossos bolsos. 

A felicidade é um problema individual. Aqui, nenhum conselho é válido. Cada um deve procurar, por si, tornar-se feliz. 

Na plenitude da felicidade, cada dia é uma vida inteira. 

A felicidade de um amigo deleita-nos. Enriquece-nos. Não nos tira nada. Caso a amizade sofra com isso, é porque não existe. 

A suprema felicidade da vida é ter a convicção de que somos amados. 

O dinheiro é uma felicidade humana abstracta; por isso aquele que já não é capaz de apreciar a verdadeira felicidade humana, dedica-se completamente a ele. 

Os homens que procuram a felicidade são como os embriagados que não conseguem encontrar a própria casa, apesar de saberem que a têm. 

A suprema felicidade da vida é a convicção de ser amado por aquilo que você é, ou melhor, apesar daquilo que você é. 

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

There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

It all comes down to what is best for those particular genres, and if you believe in the stories that you're telling and the characters that you like that you want to tell those stories with, you can pretty much apply it to any genre.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

Everybody in America started to define themselves by all these things they had around them. And all of a sudden it came tumbling down. So the old American dream has died, and that is a good thing.

I just love variety. I love being able to do different things. Do period pieces and sci-fi. I love being able to move between genres and be flexible.

Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else's dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to the dream.

There are a lot of things that we crave, there are a lot of things that would make us perhaps more fulfilled in a sensory way that we just say no to.

What's so touching is the way we fight the war right until the moment our business is taken care of and then we turn on a dime and we immediately start taking care of people. It's like a shock and aw shucks campaign.

The sweetest sounds to mortals given Are heard in Mother, Home, and Heaven.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.

I always thought that common sense would prevail. But on a game show, there is no common sense.

Research has shown that the perceived style of leadership is by far the most important thing to most voters in evaluating officeholders and candidates.

I think that's one of the things that has always put me in kind of an odd niche. It's that all of my understanding of orchestral music is via film, not via classical music like it's supposed to be. To me it's the same, it doesn't make any difference.

Live your life to the fullest.

Being used to scientific terminology and theory it was always natural for me to push this stuff into songs.

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

If the prime minister really believes it, he must be the only person left who thinks that the recent bombs in London had no connection at all with his policy in Iraq.

I don't know that it exists, the perfect family. It's always complicated.

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

I was in a special class, where you skip a grade - you go from seventh to ninth. But I got kicked out. You had to maintain an 85 average, and I didn't. I was too focused on trying to be popular.

Everybody certainly has the right to defend themselves. That's not to say that they should defy common sense by avoiding or diffusing confrontation. And that's very, very important.