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

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.

True happiness...is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

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

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

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

If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

All who would win joy, must share it; happiness was born a twin.

Be joyful because it is humanly possible.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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.

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