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

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

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Leisure is being allowed to do nothing.

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.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

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.

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

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

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

We were together. I forget the rest.

He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.

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

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

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

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

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.

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

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

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