You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.

Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Lesson no. 17: Happiness is caring about the happiness of those you love.

Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.

Making comparisons can spoil your happiness.

People fall in love more easily when they are already troubled by another emotion because we know that any intense emotional state greatly increases the risk of falling in love.

Happiness often comes when least expected.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.

A drunken but exceedingly depressed German clown from Munich entertained the public.

If flatness were funny, a dinner plate would be hilarious.

Patriotism means to stand by the people, not to stand by the party.

I first told the idea to an editor I had met who, after reading one of my novels for adults that was set in a high school, had an idea that I might write something for children.

Rap is my most used medium but I don't think I approach music like a rapper would.

That's the brutality of a breakup, isn't it? The people leaving think they did everything possible, the people left behind think what is possible hasn't even been tested yet.

But now I know that it is very important that all buildings should be consistent, that this is the quality of the Gothic cathedral, for instance, that we like.

Adversity not only draws people together, but brings forth that beautiful inward friendship.

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.