I admit I can't shake the idea that there is virtue in suffering that there is a sort of psychic economy whereby if you embrace success happiness and comfort these things have to be paid for.

You know I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

We all have a hungry heart and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading walking around the woods in Ohio where I grew up.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

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.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

Thus happiness depends as nature shows less on exterior things than most suppose.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

When we recall the past we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Fun I love but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun and happiness is better than mirth.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done the zest of creating things new.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father to be a good husband to be a good lover you know to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

It is better wither to be silent or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism pride hardness and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.