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

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 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. 

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. 

My parents were strict, but it was the world I lived in. I had no idea there was a world outside.

It's difficult on a ship to get away from your job because that accommodation house, which is where seafarers live, is their workplace, it's where they live, it's where they relax, it's everything, and it's just hard to get away. And seafarers often refer to their job as being in prison with a salary.

Years ago nobody was elected on the economic ticket. It was either the education platform, or it was health or it was other issues. It is only recently that economic values have superceded every other human value.

Do not wait for the last judgment. It comes every day.

It was a blast. I was doing everything that teenagers do and everything people in their twenties do. I was playing as hard as I was working, which was an effort to really balance my life.

Suffering can lead to transformation. And redemption. And marvelous mystery.

I've seen a bunch of the 'Portlandia' episodes, and they're pretty hilarious.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

Miracles happen every day. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you.

When I formed the band and created the Wildabouts with my friends, we decided we wanted to make a band-sounding album, a rock-sounding album. I made two solo albums before that were more experimental albums, and I think that they didn't really resonate with my fan base because they were too out-there, too artsy.

In a Harvard University study, the diets of nearly 1,000 women were analysed before their morning melatonin levels were measured. Meat consumption was the only food significantly associated with lower melatonin production, for reasons that are as yet unknown.

What fascinates me are the turning points where history could have been different.

Yellow is a small wheel of cheddar cheese. Permeating a musty odor out of the bakers shop. Yellow is a thousand paper cranes,floating down a slow, mellow river.Yellow is the round circle of moon,the light that stays through the coldest night.

I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.

The guitar is a wonderful instrument which is understood by few.

My style says, 'Look at me, don't look at me.'

On immigration, Europe is in danger of displaying the worst of itself: selfishness, haphazard decision-making and rows between member states.

Long-distance train conversations are unlike the perfunctory exchanges one normally associates with strangers, or the truncated, cut-to-the-chase kind that sometimes take place between seatmates on a plane.

There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.

The very controversial National Identification Act of 1991, requiring all United States citizens to carry identification, has greatly enhanced the ability of law enforcement officers to identify criminals and terrorists.

You can get stuck in the trap of reading your YouTube comments all the time. Sometimes I regret it. Not everyone is going to love you. And for some reason, stand-up has this thing where everyone thinks they can do it. So everyone thinks they're an expert.

'Birdman' came from a very beautiful side of me, from a part of honesty and surrender about things.

TV has taken reflection out of the human condition. People didn't use to have a ready answer for everything, whether they knew something about it or not. People think they have to have an answer for everything because the guys on TV have an answer for everything.

I still keep thinking someone will penetrate my guilty secret - that I have been masquerading as a writer all these years while all I was really doing was enjoying myself, pursuing my passion.