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

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

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 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. 

The joy of being a consumer is that it doesn't require thought, responsibility, self-awareness or shame: All you have to do is obey the first urge that gurgles up from your stomach. And then obey the next. And the next. And the next.

Inaction and indecision in the present is because of fear of consequences of the future.

One of my pet peeves about Nashville is that it tends to be copycatted. I don't want to do that. I've got to be different.

I got into writing music when I was, like, 14 or 15. It was a very private thing for me because I used it as an outlet and emotional release. I kept it very close to myself and didn't tell too many people about it.

Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.

My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love.

'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

I call myself taking control of a situation, but sometimes you really have to learn to humble yourself and to submit yourself. I'm not really good with submission, so that's the part of marriage and relationships that I've found very hard to deal with.

There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.

Proliferation of nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations is far more dangerous than proliferation of nuclear weapons to states, even states like North Korea.

Sometimes you have to get knocked down lower than youve ever been to stand up taller than you than you ever were.

Any movie I've ever made, the minute you walk on the set they tell you who's the person to buy it from.

What to do with a mistake - recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

The death of a baby is like a stone cast into the stillness of a quiet pool; the concentric ripples of despair sweep out in all directions, affecting many, many people.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.

The truth is that the United States doesn't need, and shouldn't have, a debt ceiling. Every other democratic country, with the exception of Denmark, does fine without one.

My background is in modern dance. I was a dancer and a choreographer before I was a director, and in dance, you can't cheat. Your leg goes up in the air, or it doesn't. So when I direct, I'm a big preparer.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned by the world, you also know that very few people can understand, or even begin to believe, that life can be this painful.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.