He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful much adulated, very famous and very unhappy

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

Different men seek ... happiness in different ways and by different means.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

Cheerfulness is that quality which enables one to make others happy. It takes its origin half in personal goodness, and half in the belief of the personal goodness of others.

We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.

The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.