Happiness lies in moments, and while you have it, you're not even aware; only afterwards do you know you were happy.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy.
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
How unbearable at times are people who are happy, people for whom everything works out.
When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
I turned 40 on the set of the reunion show for 'Sheer Genius,' so it wasn't a hideous birthday because I had everyone on the cast and crew sing 'Happy Birthday' to me, and I won $10,000 for being the fan favorite. It was really liberating to turn 40 and realize that I felt very comfortable with myself and knew who I was.
Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
I was never the kind to throw parties for my birthday. I remember how embarrassed I used to be when they'd make me cut a cake on the sets, and the unit would sing 'Happy Birthday.'
I was standing right behind Marilyn, completely invisible, when she sang 'Happy birthday, Mr. President.' And indeed, the corny thing happened: Her dress split for my benefit, and there was Marilyn, and yes, indeed, she didn't wear any underwear.
I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.
When I auditioned for drama college, they asked me to do my Shakespeare. I couldn't do it. They asked me to do my modern, and I couldn't do it. They asked me if I had a song prepared, and I said 'No,' so I sang 'Happy Birthday.' And I did a reasonable improvisation, a reasonable one, nothing special at all. I don't know how I got in, but I did.
I had a remarkably happy childhood; whatever scars I have are self-inflicted.
One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is, I think, to have a happy childhood.
The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
A happy childhood... is the worst possible preparation for life.
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for life.
I WAS born a slave; but I never knew it till six years of happy childhood had passed away.
