William Inge - The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

Kavita Ramdas - We need women who are so strong they can be gentle, so educated they can be humble, so fierce they can be compassionate, so passionate they can be rational, and so disciplined they can

Donald Glover - I personally don't believe people really grow. They just learn stuff when they were a kid, and hold on to it, and that affects every relationship they have.

Ron Chernow - I have developed a very strong partiality for the dead: they don't talk back, they don't sue, and they don't have angry relatives.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana - Employers are at their happiest on Mondays. Employees are at their happiest on Fridays.

Daniel Handler - I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Penelope Cruz - I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

John Gutfreund - I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

William E. Simon - I continue to believe that the American people have a love-hate relationship with inflation. They hate inflation but love everything that causes it.

Rube Goldberg - I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Madonna - A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That’s why they don’t get what they want.

Helen Hayes - People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

Kimberly Schlapman - I like to do special things for people. Any time someone has a birthday, I make them a really special cake that they all seem to love - it's a Coca-Cola cake.

Martin Parr - In New York, you have the street; in the U.K., we have the beach. I end up being like a migrating bird, being attracted to it.

Matthew Arnold - It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done