Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel.
The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by God one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity.
The satisfaction to be derived from success in a great constructive enterprise is one of the most massive that life has to offer.
Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy . . . Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values, and finds his joy in nothing but rational actions.
Few things are necessary to make the wise man happy while no amount of material wealth would satisfy a fool. I am not a fool.
Your life is supposed to feel good to you.
I don't necessarily do anything just for the money. I do it for the passion and I do it for the love, because I'm still hungry. So if I want to do music, it's not necessarily motivated because of monetary value. It's more about the passion and the love, and I think that's where music should come from, the heart, not necessarily just to cash a check.
There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.
Such is human psychology that if we don't express our joy, we soon cease to feel it.
Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.
You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
I think, as an artist I done conquered every way that you can go, as far as with creativeness, and directions and love, and you pissed off or, your happy.
Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.
There is a certain pleasure in weeping.
The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other & my arms are the best peacemakers.
I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.
Love life more than the meaning of it?
Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.
To love and to live well is wished of many, but incident to few.
So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the pleasure I bring excels all delight, so the knot of love, however tight it seemed before, is tied tighter still.
When something is not great, I'm not going to eat it. It's not enough to just get full. It's like, how does this make you feel?
Mental happiness is more important than physical comfort. Physical comfort comes from the material. But material facilities cannot provide you with peace of mind.
Sex without love is like a goddamn business transaction. And sometimes both parties feel as if they got a good deal, but that doesn't make it any less so.
I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.
