Michael has a connection with children just like Mickey Mouse does and he brings happiness to them and joy.

The arrival of any child brings you a lot of happiness.

My parents were not very happy. They were very worried about me pursuing a career that even if I had talent might not give me the happiness and the success that they - any parent hopes for their child.

For me however that beloved glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself.

Musicians are probably the most uncomfortable people in themselves in the world. Happiness I think only exists when you're a child and once you go past 11 unfortunately it's gone.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

The women I know who have children and have careers they seem to be very happy. They love their children and they love their jobs. But happiness comes out of being willing to do your work in your twenties to find out who you are what you love.

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.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers. We're happiness merchants - giving people the opportunity to dream like children.

When Kate was born she was born into a world of joy and happiness and confidence. The difference between the children is night and day. She's happy she's thriving she's full of self-confidence. I tell her she's beautiful every day before I send her off to school.

I think a child may be the only thing that could give me true happiness.

One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies day cares and babysitters are all collapsing which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home.

To show a child what once delighted you to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Happiness is an imaginary condition formerly attributed by the living to the dead now usually attributed by adults to children and by children to adults.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Oh I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.

Maturity - among other things the unclouded happiness of the child at play who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

From their teenage years on children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.