Defender of the liberty that I idolize, myself more free than anyone, in coming as a friend to offer my services to this intriguing republic, I bring to it only my frankness and my good will; no ambition, no self-interest; in working for my glory, I work for their happiness.
Happiness
I always had a larger view. I'm interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
I always had a larger view. I’m interested in real life – my family, my friends. I have tried never to define myself by my success, whatever that is. My happiness is way beyond roles and awards.
Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I'd go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.
Perfect happiness would be knowing that all my family and friends were happy and safe. Then I’d go to a tropical island with my husband where it was gorgeous and fun all day long and interesting and fun all evening. Good food and dancing would be nice, too, and weekly visits from those safe and happy family and friends. Plus world peace.
I always associate blonde with sunshine and puppies and happiness, but I don't think sexiness.
I always associate blonde with sunshine and puppies and happiness, but I don’t think sexiness.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.
We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, ’tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform’d what is the true Way to Happiness.
My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.
My mantra is: Let there be happiness in my soul, and let me share it with the world.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as 'an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.'
My biography of Frank Sinatra is not paean to his music but rather an illumination of the man behind the music, who once described himself as ‘an 18-karat manic-depressive who lived a life of violent emotional contradictions with an over-acute capacity for sadness as well as happiness.’
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else’s, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
There's happiness in having less.
There’s happiness in having less.
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
We all of us deserve happiness or none of us does.
I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
I’m a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.
Money's a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn't have – nice things – but happiness? That's a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.
Money’s a necessary evil, there to give you moments. It gives me things I couldn’t have – nice things – but happiness? That’s a not a question of money and fame. Quite the opposite.