William Faulkner Quotes

I just have a great life. I know great people. I've had great relationships - all different kinds of relationships.

By nature, I'm a very positive person, and because I'm happy in myself, and in my life, and I've got a great husband, and beautiful children, and I have a job that I love that calls for a certain amount of emotional expression, I get to realise a lot of my dreams and aspirations.

Success means different things to different people. To me, the greatest quality of successful human beings is the ability to love.

Contentment comes when you find the people, places, and events in life you were created to impact.

I think I understand life. I think I understand how to live. I'm enjoying my life. I don't really live in an as extravagant a way as people think.

When you look at your life the greatest happinesses are family happinesses.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

People think that you're supposed to marry your type well, I didn't marry my type. It's much more practical, and based in a day-to-day existence. So when you have that, and you're happy, and you love her, don't waste time. Because time - and I've learned that at this point in my life - time is my most precious commodity. Nothing is more precious than time. Because when it runs out that's it

Love is the essence of a full and wonderful life.

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.

In my long life I have found peace, joy, and happiness beyond my fondest hopes and dreams. One of the supreme benedictions of my life has been my marriage to an elect daughter of God. I love her with all my heart and soul.

It would be the ultimate dream for me to win an Academy Award, be in love and have kids. Then I would say, 'Life is great! I have done everything I wanted.'

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.

I know this is going to sound corny, but I love my life. I love my baby, so I love getting to wake up with him. And I have the most amazing job, with writing that any actor would love and costars who I can't wait to see on Monday mornings. And I love coming home to my husband.

What it meant to me: a happy life, of course, companionship, of course. A common objective, I think.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I've got a great wife, a great life.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

I think a lot of the guys I know and a lot of people I've talked to, what they want is very often what most people want, a kind of simple life, a livelihood, a family, people who care about them, people they can care about. I think vets on the whole want the same things that everybody else does.

My eyes and spirit have opened up since I found someone that I get to share my life with.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

The happiest people I've found are in science. These people have three times the IQ - maybe I'm exaggerating. They have a higher IQ than I do. They love what they're doing, they have a good family life, they're satisfied.

I look at life and I see some very happy relationships, but I also see the vast majority as not being that happy.

May you live all the days of your life.