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.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

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

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

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

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.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

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

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.