So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.

At 11 years old I made a very definitive decision. And my decision was that I wanted to be happy.

Why not just live in the moment, especially if it has a good beat?

Comedy breaks down walls. It frees us for just a moment from the ugliness of this world.

I think that the boys have a tendency to be less receptive than the girls.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

So maybe that's what the difference is, is that when you intend to be happy, then you figure out ways to sustain your happiness or your ability to feel moments of joy in your life.