“I'm not basically a happy person, but I have all kinds of joy.”

“I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.”

“Joy, happiness, are hopes and our dreams…. A place of peace and harmony… that's the kind of land I invision.”

“I'm basically an 'appy person, but I'm just not into fun things that much.”

“Basically I'm a very serious person, but I think the form it takes with me is comedy. I see the amusing side of all potentially pompous situations.”

“I'm happy doing what I'm doing, and if you have that kind of attitude then everything else from there on is a bonus.”

“I'm this superphilosophical kind of person. Stuck in a prison of abstract ideas and overpowering emotions, I have this personality that makes it really hard to survive.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

“And you're not happy but you're funny and I'm tripping over my joy. I just keep on gettin up again.”

“You know, I could run for governor and all this but I'm basically a media creation. I've never really done anything. I've worked for my dad. I worked in the oil industry. But that's not the kind of profile you have to have to get elected to public office.”