Every poll about the Left the Right and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes the less happy the person is likely to be.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Caring about others running the risk of feeling and leaving an impact on people brings happiness.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

I am about to be married and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about is happiness enough to get their work done.

When you're passionate about something you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness you cannot appreciate happiness.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity to put it simply.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

Let's face it - think of Africa and the first images that come to mind are of war poverty famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations which in their day were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

Fortune which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I was an OK boxer I wasn't great I was OK but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday Wednesday and Friday usually Saturday afternoons too with a whole bunch of mates and training very very hard for about two-and-half hours.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later.

The Super Bowl isn't for kids I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.