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

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

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.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

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

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

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.

Happy is he who causes a scandal

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

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

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

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

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

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

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

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.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.