Ray Bradbury is, for many reasons, the most influential writer in my life. Throughout our long friendship, Ray supplied not only his terrific stories but a grand model of what a writer could be, should be, and yet rarely is: brilliant and charming an...
My mother was truly my saving grace, because she would take me to church with her. I would see my mother smiling in the choir, and I wanted to know this God that made her so happy. If I had not had that faith in my life, I don't know where I would be...
Who is my biggest inspiration? Wow... I really, without wanting to sound 'aw gee shucks,' I'd have to say my wife who taught a rather uptight Englishman what there is to be got out of life. Susan is my greatest inspiration. She has more integrity tha...
I suppose a certain degree of adulthood has entered my life. Aiming for Broadway, I can't think that way any more. Of course, Broadway will always be important. But it's not the focus of everything that you do. You know, I'm very happy I was born whe...
In an interview, I lose control even of what I am, for it is the interviewer who edits me, finally, into what he thinks I am, and never have I been happy with someone else's version of my life after that person has spent an entire two or three hours ...
Rita: It's beautiful. I don't know what to say. Phil: I do. Whatever happens tomorrow, or for the rest of my life, I'm happy now... because I love you.
Love your life. That's a direct route to something people used to call "happiness".
I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along.
When we procrastinate, we also put a hold on happiness.
There are two times in a person's life when there is the possibility of pure happiness: in youth and in summer.
The purpose of our life is to be useful. Happiness is a byproduct of such an act.
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
Money makes the world go round; however, happiness greases the axle. Without this lubricant, life will seize.
Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!
A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.
Love is a divine and universal attraction, which hold the universe together and fills it with beauty, life, and happiness forever.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Our idea of happiness, some of it, is very tied to the cult of celebrity: there is this golden, wonderful life that I want, and if I dress like that, I'm on my way there.
Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.
If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?
