H. L. Mencken Quotes

In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.

It's always gratifying to hear that people are excited by something that you've been excited to make.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.

I guess just enjoying what you do and always wanting more of that enjoyment, satisfaction, and putting something together creatively - that gives me a lot of happiness.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up.

I'm always pleased with my work. Absolutely.

It's nice to see a movie where people are actually succeeding.

It's fun being creative and that's satisfying.

You know, it's just my dream came true.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

I think that success is having fun.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

When you feel an audience engaged and surprised and enthusiastic, reacting to what you've planned, that is the reward. It's better than the Emmys.

I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.

I'm just really proud of 'Dead Head Fred.'

When you are proud of something you have done, and you have made a film you feel has merit, and it's found an audience and is critically well received, that's a pretty pleasurable place to be. I mean, you don't want it gathering dust at the bottom of someone's DVD collection.

I'm living my dream now.