"As a kid, before I could play music, I remember baseball being the one thing that could always make me happy"

"Music is my religion"

"I feel happy to terrify kids"

"I was married to Margaret Joan Howe in 1940. Although not a scientist herself she has contributed more to my work than anyone else by providing a peaceful and happy home"

"No man is happy who does not think himself so"

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours"

"Happy is the person who knows what to remember of the past, what to enjoy in the present, and what to plan for in the future"

"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life"