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

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

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

I think the thing to do is to enjoy the ride while you're on it.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude

Happy is he who causes a scandal

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

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

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.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

Recommend to your children virtues, that alone can make them happy, not gold.

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

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.