Famous Quotes

"I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour."

Richard Eyre on Happiness

More quotes about Happiness

• "Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open."

  John Barrymore on Happiness

• "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."

  Dalai Lama on Happiness

• "Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."

  Abraham Lincoln on Happiness

• "I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition."

  Martha Washington on Happiness

• "Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

  Mahatma Gandhi on Happiness

More quotes by Richard Eyre

• "The principle of acting in good faith is at the heart of decent work."

• "The arts are weapons of understanding and weapons of happiness."

• "I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself."

• "A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination."

• "Naming a baby is an act of poetry, for many people the only creative moment of their lives."