'Playboy' made the good life a reality for me and made it the subject matter of my paintings - not affluence and luxury as such, but joie de vivre itself.
As an instructor at Alexandria University, I did research that was published in international journals. Although I left to pursue a doctorate in the United States, it was not for want of a good life.
Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and cheery has on what people think the good life is.
I do happen to have a good life... But I also like to work. I feel like I got the brass ring and I got very lucky in this.
When I came to Cambridge, I was involved in the ward for a little bit, but I did have a very gradual process of trying to work out what I thought a good life consisted of.
Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
I do admire Judi Dench and Sir Ian McKellen, but I'm a philistine. I like the good life too much; I'm not good at going on stage night after night and on wet Wednesday afternoons.
I've been lucky enough - well, maybe unlucky enough - to have had a lot of friends who have had their ups and downs. And for an actor, that's good. Life experience in any regard is good. So I've seen a lot and I've had my own experiences.
Wellbeing is a notion that entails our values about the good life, and questions of values are not ultimately scientific questions.
The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
The good life is built with good relationships.
Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
My success at living a moral life is pretty terrible, but I still aspire to do it! I identify with the Johnny Cash thing that trying to live a good life and be a good person are not necessarily the same thing!
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
Mellow doesn't always make for a good story, but it makes for a good life.
I think that Phish has been a band, we've all had- I've had a great life growing up and everybody in my band's had a really good life, none of us have got anything to complain about at all.
This is our country, our water. We're entitled to a good life. It's a human rights issue.
Since I've quit drinking, I'm not sure I've found the good life, but I've certainly uncovered a better one.
We have a good life when we manage to live with both satisfied and unsatisfied needs, when we are not obsessed by what is beyond our reach.