Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

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.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion

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

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.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.

No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks.

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

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

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

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

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.

You don't have to be famous. You just have to make your mother and father proud of you.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

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

Children are happy because they don't have a file in their minds called 'All the Things That Could Go Wrong.

Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.