All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.

When I count my blessings, I find you in every one.

I love you" means I want you to be happy.

Music is happiness with a steady pulse.

Alas, impatience is but another form of unhappiness. It is true, it is true. I have never met a happy impatient person.

Happiness is never in a rush. If you move too fast, you leave it behind.

Laugh and smile for no reason at all. Giggle grins are a magnet for happiness.

Life can seem like a gloomy wait in the thick of black shadows.And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

Nothing can squelch your fire except turning your back on the thing that fuels it.

The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.

The real beauty of a woman is most clearly seen in the smiles of those who interact with her.

Birds sing after a storm why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

A highly learned man has two sources of happiness: either he abandons all earthly interests, or else he possesses much which could be abandoned.

I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.

Let's start a movement - a movement of men who aren't afraid to stop violence against women.

I kept thinking there's bound to be something else? I could hear it sometimes, but I couldn't play it.

Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth.

Everything we feel deeply must be expressed.

Ken Bates is a football cretin.

You cannot live your life looking at yourself from someone else's point of view.

I like to relish words and sentences, and phraseology, and there's not much facility for that [playing Maigret].