Happiness consists not in having much but in being content with little.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

Happiness is not that easy to achieve but having a handsome husband a beautiful baby and a great job helps.

You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.

I don't have the recipe for happiness but I think the engine is simply having the desire.

I think the secret to happiness is having a Teflon soul. Whatever comes your way you either let it slide or you cook with it.

There is no happiness in having or in getting but only in giving.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great big normal life and you're like 'What's wrong with me?'

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also the people I met at the university most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

I think though if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others if properly run.

For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers only minor ones.

Government is force pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government to protect liberty - not to run your personal life not to run the economy and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

Any people anywhere being inclined and having the power have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having but it would not be a good song in my eyes until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song it's just complaining.

The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.

I don't look to a man to get pride in myself. It's not about having a black president it's about having a good president and I think that's the most important thing.

Normal people have an incredible lack of empathy. They have good emotional empathy but they don't have much empathy for the autistic kid who is screaming at the baseball game because he can't stand the sensory overload. Or the autistic kid having a meltdown in the school cafeteria because there's too much stimulation.