I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.

The source of one's joy is also often the source of one's sorrow.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Music was my joy, my home, the one place I felt happy and secure.

I'm real excited. I'm so blessed to have so much peace and joy inside. I just can't keep quiet about it.

To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.

When we finally came to start work on this, the joy was it was only Joel and I, we didn't have to answer to anybody, and we didn't have to submit a screen play or anything like that. We just wrote it and then made it.

It has been an ache and a joy both to look over this big shoulder of mine at all my yesterdays.

To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Joy is not in things; it is in us.

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.