Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.

The only thing that really matters in life are your relationships to other people.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.

It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.

Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life.

Happiness is only the cart; love is the horse

If you want to treat an illness that has no easy cure, first of all, treat them with hope.

The recent years of the Grant Study have shown that our lives when we are old are the sum of all of our loves.

Whether we live to a vigorous old age lies not so much in our stars or in our genes but in ourselves.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

My dad’s contentment is all that matters to me. When he’s laughing, I’m laughing. When he’s happy, I’m happy. I would give up my soul for him. To me, nothing else but his happiness matters.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

I've tried doing so, for it was never my intention to paint only with gray. But in the course of my work I have eliminated one color after another, and what has remained is gray, gray, gray!

In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.

It's a thing of violence, to whom death would be a merciful release.

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

I have never lost an election yet. I am a winner. Let's just say that.

the giver measures his gift with one yardstick, and the receiver measures it with another.

If you create something that makes a difference in people's lives, you are likely to become a business success as well