"I love my family and I had a very wonderful, magical childhood. But New Jersey was actually a very cold place. There was such an intense concentration of wealth, and such a low concentration of any actual human happiness."
"Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."
John Barrymore on Happiness"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
Dalai Lama on Happiness"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
Abraham Lincoln on Happiness"I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."
Martha Washington on Happiness"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness"Artists walk alone."
"Housing Works is the coolest thrift store in the world, because not only are they the best thrift store - they're not the most thrifty thrift store - but they have amazing stuff and all of their proceeds go directly to kids, mostly homeless kids, living with AIDS and HIV in New York, in the metropolitan area."
"It makes sense that we came up with our public school system during the Industrial Revolution because it's like everybody is a factory worker, eating their terrible food and going back to the room where you're silent and listening to an idiot. That's an epitomizing idea, getting called 'Nothing' for your whole high school experience."
"Doing things like playing music, something that's so natural and basic to human function, running around in nature, eating delicious food. These things are intrinsic in basic, primordial to human beings, so that's sort of a way to return to a blank canvas, allowing my true personality to return."
"The token gay character is always so funny and so fantastic. That's happened a lot. Or they're often purely victims."