To think the world therefore a general Bedlam or place of madmen and oneself a physician is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination and the way to happiness.

While I gave up God a long time ago I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

I love my family and I had a very wonderful magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness.

There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.

The Dalai Lama. He is a very wise man of great inner peace who believes that happiness is the purpose of our lives. Through his teachings and leadership he continues to make this world a better place in which to live.

You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

Happiness is a direction not a place.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

Her angel's face As the great eye of heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in the shady place.

When a great team loses through complacency it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent and even here in our own hemisphere our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Apparently a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Mr. Chairman delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching and I do a lot of it.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all we encounter it every day.