Aaron Sorkin Quotes

Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.

Well I don't know that I'm okay any more than anyone else is okay, I lead a happy life and a very full one - I have a happy marriage and my kids are all cheerful, and no one is finding fault with me, personally.

I mean, I’m quite happy. I’m happy in all aspects of my life. I'm very happy in all aspects of my life.

When I am writing, even though it's hard and I do struggle often, I am happier than when I'm not writing. I feel alive. Whereas when I'm not writing, I feel like your common every-day neurotic.

My parents have a strong work ethic, but their attitude to life, their philosophy, is: 'whatever makes you happy.'

Unhappiness is an unfinished state; happy people don't need our help.

Always leave enough time in your life to do something that makes you happy, satisfied, even joyous. That has more of an effect on economic well-being than any other single factor.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

All I want is to live a peaceful life, to regain my life and be happy.

I think the happiness we find, we make.

We all want to be happy. We need to expand the notion of what that means, to make it bigger and wiser.

I think if you're an unhappy person, you're always going to be an unhappy person. You're probably going to be less unhappy if your business is doing well, if I'm being honest.

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

Writing does produce a very unique satisfaction. There are times when I'm writing that it's frustrating or appalling or difficult, but when it goes well, it goes really well, and there is a feeling of rightness, like I'm doing the thing I was meant to do, almost in a mystical way, like I'm at an appropriate angle to the world.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

I am happy with the roles I play.

Being happy, being healthy, is the most important thing.

You can't be in a situation where you are not happy. It's as simple as that.

I'm at peace with what I'm doing, I feel good with what I wake up doing and about my lifestyle.

If you're happy, ultimately, that's all that matters.