"I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness." ― Maurice Sendak Topic(s): Happiness More From Maurice Sendak "I don’t need faith." "I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn’t want to be a child." "Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And there’s no doubt about that. We just don’t like to think about it. Certainly the men don’t like to think about it." More In Happiness "A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being; and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings."― James Allen "I’ve always been interested in gadgets and technology and I’ve always been a reader."― LeVar Burton "I find that the older I get, the more I see that there really aren’t huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be."― Paula Cole