I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
I want my ex-wife and children to be happy.
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary.
There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.
Before I published anything, I dreamed of publication, but I didn't actually write for it. I imagined that writing for an audience was something for fancier people. I aspired, but mostly I wrote for myself. I wrote because it made me happy.
I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
I don't see a full-fledged career in Hollywood. I am happy with the cameos. Even Tom Cruise will only do special appearances in our films; he wouldn't do a full hero movie. But it's good to act in different cinema.
Deem no man happy until he passes the end of his life without suffering grief.
I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
Audiences like to be made to feel that there is a world where things go right: where big emotions can happen and yet feel safe. This is why there is a constant tension in Hollywood between studios who want happy endings and writers who want to explore the human condition. There is a time and a place for both!
We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.
I'm happy to not know what I think about stuff; I'm happy to change my mind. But it's relatively recently that I've been able to apply that to feelings. I used to like to know what I felt. I didn't want those feelings to be complicated or muddled or clashing.
I got into hip hop from my uncle; he was always playing us Kool G Rap and Big Daddy Kane. He was a bad boy, and my mum was not really happy that I was hanging out with him.
Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.
I am reasonably happy, providing I keep busy.
A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that.
The important question is not, what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amount.
You want people to feel something when you tell a story, whether they feel happy or whether they feel sad.
A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.
I want as many people as possible to hear my music. I'm happy to entertain people by being a star.
The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.
Before every show, we pray together, and after, we talk and have fun and laugh. We make sure to keep each other sane and happy.
My goal is to make my kids as happy as possible.
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
I'm standing up thinking. Anybody who wants to listen is welcome. If not, I'm happy to see them go.
There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.
I am not so complicated or intelligent a composer, nor am I very interested in becoming so. I am much more happy doing what I know I can do than what I am not sure I could do.
When I'm on stage, I get real happy there. Maybe that's the only time in my adult life I feel like myself.
It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.
I hope each week I grow and impress you guys and make you happy.
I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.
If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!
Before we start filming, I have a strong idea of the look and the feel that I want to create, and I'm happy to explore any means that will help me achieve that.
I treat everyone as equals. I can't work if I'm not having fun, and I can't have fun if not everyone is happy.
Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.