Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think

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

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

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

Forget like a child any injury done by somebody immediately. Never keep it in the heart. It kindles hatred.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

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

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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

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

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.

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

God is a community of persons and He has created you in His image, not as an isolated individual, but as a person whom He has invited to a communal life with Himself and with the whole human family.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

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

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

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.

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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