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

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. 

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. 

I started out doing the acting, and there was always an interest in music, and then the music just took off.

Theres no point in being scared of just trying.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart.

Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese.

Artless fairy stories enchant us in our first years and retain their hold on us until our last.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

Now, a lot of what we are doing right now, quite frankly, is because of what happened on Christmas. Many of the things were kind of in the works. We were already planning, for example, the purchase and deployment of advanced imaging technology. You call them body scanners. We call them AITs (Advanced Imaging Technologies).

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong but that is the way to bet it.

Deliberate cruelty is unforgivable.

Obviously when it comes to the question of telling stories about other people's lives in a situation as political as South Africa, you get to be political.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and then there's other times where I try to write something that's true.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Faking your own death is illegal yet faking your own life is celebrated.

One way and another I was having a ball - playing gigs, jamming and listening to fine musicians. Then came a crisis at home. My stepfather fell sick, and it meant I had to support the family.

When you tour with a band, you're just out there, and it's just you guys. That's your little universe. If you do a play, it's the same deal. That becomes your world, for the cast and crew.

I was one of those weird children that just couldn't talk to people, so I kind of had to make myself be not like that because I knew it was going to hinder me.

My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.